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Comment by theshrike79 | Hacker News Reader

This is the thing.

Convincing enough deep fake + the 24/7 news industry + Twitter rage machine combined will at some point overreact way too fast and too hard and someone will get actually hurt, maybe even killed.

Actors have had clauses for not using their likeness for a long time now, if their face is 3D scanned, the use cases are carefully limited. They can't just put Brad Pitt in a random commercial even though they have the scans of his face and body and can find a voice actor.

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This sometimes is very advantageous for celebrities.

Bruce Willis got paid an insane amount of money for his deepfaked face to appear in a Russian commercial. He literally got paid a couple million dollars to do NOTHING except agree to his likeness being used.

https://www.ign.com/articles/bruce-willis-russian-commercial...

Not sure why this would be downvoted.

HN has by far the most bizarre downvote patterns I've ever seen. Not really worth wondering about.

I think there are definite categories. They seem to range from legitimate uses of downvoting such as against obvious trolls, facetious argumentation, etc. to enforcement of ideological tyranny. It's always interesting to analyze.

Well sure, describing downvote patterns as weird doesn't mean that the majority of downvotes are bizarre. The bulk are completely comprehensible. But I can't think of anywhere else where I see as many completely reasonable comments heavily downvoted for incomprehensible reasons.

Yeah I agree on your last point. I sometimes wonder if some of it is automated / training data being built but you never know.

> enforcement of ideological tyranny

Boy, that escalated quickly.

IMO the voting pattern changes pretty clearly as the Earth turns and different groups of people become the dominant readers at any given moment.

This dynamic is true of places like Reddit too, or any forum with a global audience. But I can't think of any subreddit I've ever observed such weird downvote patterns on.

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