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Vincent Le: “The Deepfakes to Come: A Turing Cop’s Nightmare"

Video recording of the lecture and Q&A session by Vincent Le titled “The Deepfakes to Come: A Turing Cop’s Nightmare”. The lecture was held via Zoom on the 10th of September 2020. The lecture was a part of the 2020 School for Politics and Critique “Xenofeminism and other forms of realist and materialist feminism: A vantage point of a radically novel politics” which was held in Skopje from 10th till the 12th of September 2020. THE DEEPFAKES TO COME: A TURING COP’S NIGHTMARE In 1950, Turing proposed an “imitation game” in which a woman hidden from view attempts to mislead an interrogator into believing she is a man. Turing then proposed to have a computer play the part of the woman, with the interrogator now trying to determine whether their interlocutor is a human or a machine. As cyber- and xenofeminists have shown, we find women crossing wires with machines even earlier in the history of AI than the Turing test. If other feminists like Irigaray and Braidotti can use the language of the inhuman to talk about women insofar as humanity has traditionally been defined in terms of men, it seems reasonable that feminism, as well as anti-fascism, can be used to model machines as they spiral out of our control. This paper contends that cyberfeminism and antifascist resistance are helpful heuristics for developing a renewed philosophical and post-critical realism which tracks the inhuman drives and impersonal forces incarnated by evermore autonomous machines. As a case study, I focus on “deepfakes,” artificial neural nets generating realistic audio-visual simulations of public figures, as a variation on the imitation game that hijacks human drives in the pursuit of a machinic desire. Contrary to the popular impression that deepfakes exemplify the post-truth phenomenon of fake news, deepfakes are an anarchic, massively distributed resistance network capable of sabotaging centralized, authoritarian institutions’ hegemonic narratives. Something is now judging us and it isn’t human or divine… Vincent Le is a PhD candidate at Monash University. He has taught philosophy at Deakin University and The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. He has published in Hypatia, Cosmos and History, Šum, Horror Studies, Art + Australia and Colloquy, among other journals, and on themes such as accelerationism, neorationalism, cyber- and xenofeminism, artificial intelligence, science fiction, mysticism, numerology, psychoanalysis, non-philosophy, climate change, Maison Margiela, covid-19, Grimes and club culture. His recent work focuses on the reckless propagation of libidinal materialism. About the School The “School for Politics and Critique 2020” is a summer school for left activists and theorists from the regions of both Southeast, and wider Europe. It is dedicated to current political issues in the region and abroad, focusing on new and relevant knowledge from the intersecting areas of feminism, socialism, Marxism, and new forms of (speculative) realism that can serve as an epistemic foundation for a new form of politics. The School aims to facilitate an in depth exploration of feminist-materialist doctrine. By contrasting and juxtaposing xenofeminism with other forms of feminist-materialist thought, the school seeks to find new ways of conceiving the relations between gender, politics, economics and subjectivity. By bringing together activists and scholars, the school aims to open a substantial discussion which is not merely theoretical or abstract, but concerns political practice as such. Our goal is to create an inclusive and interactive environment in which participants, as well as the keynote speakers play a pivotal role. This year, the School will offer a three day program of keynote lectures accompanied by afternoon workshops. The general themes of this summer school that will be covered by the keynote speakers’ lectures are centered around feminist-materialist theory and include the following: feminist philosophy, non-philosophy, psychoanalysis, accelerationism, and Marxist theory. The School is supported by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Southeast Europe #SchoolofPoliticsandCritique2020