It's cute to have a title that alludes to both the AI angle, and the
deception angle. My first working-title ideas where "Deepfake" and
"Generative Adversary".
I like the way the latter (unlike the former) alludes to an AI term
without just being that term, but it only sort-of fits the story
(insofar as our potagonist is the adversary of the Trust and Safety
establishment and is inclined to creatively oppose them), and the AI
term it alludes to only sort-of fits (insofar as GANs are famous for
image synthesis).
In contrast, this title nails it on both criteria! "Deepfake" really
is the general term for the video of Elaine (I think it was originally
coined for face-swaps, but it should cover de novo synthesis), and
"Fake Deeply" actually describes the moral about deception (pulling
off deception is hard because of how exhaustively and recursively you
need to cover your tracks).
The title is so perfect that it might actually make me more motivated
to finish the story sooner (even though I'm "supposed" to be polishing
memoir 1–3 ASAP and then making moving preparations)? Maybe that's
bad, a distraction?
It would be good to at least finish the story sometime this
year. ("Plain Speech Valley Squirrels" sat in my drafts folder for six
years, but I'm worried if I let this one sit for six years, it'll be
overcome by events in technology.)
Even though this shouldn't be a Less Wrong exclusive (because of the
sex angle), I think it's fine to linkpost there. Description: "A short
story about generative AI and instrumental incentives for
deception. (_Content warning_: lewdness, transphobia.) (Xember 202X,
X000 words)"
-Title: Deepfake (working title)
+Title: Fake Deeply
Date: 2023-07-01
Category: fiction
Tags: language modeling
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