Deranged Reality TV Show Psychologically Tortures Participants by Showing Them Deepfakes of Their Partners Cheating

We’re in Hell Just when you think reality TV can’t stoop any lower, it does it yet again. To wit: in fresh new manmade horror, a Netflix reality show called “Falso Amor,” which translates to “Deep Fake Love,” splits five real-life couples up into two different houses, adds a bunch of hot singles to the mix, and then subjects individuals to the experience of watching their partner cheat on them in videos that may or may not be deepfaked. Yes, seriously, and from the streaming service that brought you “Black Mirror.” The Spanish-language program asks participants to watch the cheating clips, many of which are just convincing fakes. Participants then have to guess whether the videos are real or cooked up by the AI. At the end of the show, the couple who guesses correctly more than anyone else wins 100,000 euros (that’s about $110,000 in US dollars) because this is the world we now live in. Obviously, this premise is a dystopian nightmare — as Platformer’s Casey Newton put it on The New York Times’ Hard Fork podcast, “God does not exist in the universe of ‘Deep Fake Love'” — and we would not wish this psychological torture on anyone. Ethic With Drama In another particularly dark turn, per Decider, part of the premise of the show is that the couples didn’t actually know that they would be subjected to the deepfaked clips. Not to get all high and mighty about bad reality television, but there are some serious moral and ethical…Deranged Reality TV Show Psychologically Tortures Participants by Showing Them Deepfakes of Their Partners Cheating

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