{"id":467,"date":"2018-08-30T23:16:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T23:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/?p=467"},"modified":"2018-08-30T23:16:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T23:16:56","slug":"you-can-do-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/blog-04\/you-can-do-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Do Anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Nero<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span>\u201cAnd when you\u2019re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab \u2018em\u00a0by the pussy. You can do anything.\u201d When this recording of then presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016, America and the world erupted. Many thought Trump\u2019s chances at becoming president were buried solely because of his 2005 comments degrading women. The recording comes from a private conversation with former television personality Billy Bush. While Trump&#8217;s career was ultimately not affected negatively because of the tape, Bush lost his job and has a negative tinge on his legacy because of one three minute conversation.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t bring this instance up as an attack against Donald Trump. Rather, the tape exhibits the fact that recordings, videos, pictures, and any other form of digital media spread like wildfire in today\u2019s world, and that what you say or do in front of a camera or microphone can destroy your reputation and\u00a0possibly even\u00a0your\u00a0life. This is where the Lyrebird technology could become extremely lethal in the future. As voice replication technologies grow and improve in the future, discerning one\u2019s\u00a0true identity\u00a0will become more sophisticated.\u00a0American politics,\u00a0especially in\u00a0a campaign setting, already thrives\u00a0off of\u00a0the degradation of the other candidate(s). Attack ads are commonplace for both sides of every race, many including sound bites from the targeted candidate. With the emergence of voice replication, negative campaigners will become more ruthless in their ad\u00a0making, and\u00a0will use the\u00a0technology\u00a0to\u00a0sabotage\u00a0opposing candidates. Tapes\u00a0similar to that of Trump will become more and more prevalent, and in a country where the voters already do not trust politicians it will be extremely difficult for candidates to clear their names. Voters will have no real way of knowing what a candidate really said or did. The\u00a0unfortunate\u00a0message\u00a0to those negative\u00a0campaigners\u00a0becomes the same that Billy Bush heard from Donald Trump: \u201cYou can do anything.\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Nero\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cAnd when you\u2019re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab \u2018em\u00a0by the pussy. You can do anything.\u201d When this recording of then presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016, America and the world erupted. Many thought Trump\u2019s chances at becoming president were buried solely because of his 2005 comments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blog-04","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}