Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Technology enables us to fake photos and videos. We can make anyone appear to say and do anything. Preventing such is quite simple.

A few months back, I wrote about preventing harm from deep fake videos. That advice was to live in such a way that I could say, “You know me. You know I wouldn’t say or do that.”

Here is another way of life that prevents harm from deep fakes. This one is almost opposite of the first:

be irrelevant

In the Satir Model of coping (see link above), this carries the concept of laugh at everything, contradict yourself constantly, shift and bend and laugh and roll along.

Response to the deep fake video: You know me. You can’t take anything I say or do seriously. Come one, let’s go shopping or bowling or something. Ha ha ha giggle giggle giggle.

The deep fake video rolls off because everything rolls off the irrelevant person. Not recommended as much as the first prevention, but it works.