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The Capture
2019 · TV series · 3 seasons
Created by Ben Chanan
When soldier Shaun Emery's conviction for a murder in Afghanistan is overturned due to flawed video evidence, he returns to life as a free man with his young daughter. But when damning CCTV footage from a night out in London comes to light, Shaun's life takes a shocking turn and he must soon fight for his freedom once again.
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There is a great UK tv show about the surveillance state, from 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Capture_(TV_series)
I would recommend that folks to watch the mini-series "The Capture" for some eye opening thoughts on the trustworthiness of video evidence. At some point the chain of evidence becomes as important as the video itself. I doubt we can come up with a technical way to authenticate video evidence, and I suspect these issues will become worse over time as it becomes easier and easier to create deep fakes.
>Deepfaking doesn’t have to be used on its own. A dedicated entity can shoot entirely new original scenes (unique footage), deepfake actors’ faces to look like the people they’re targeting, edit it all together, and possibly add CG VFX as a final layer to make the resulting video look very real
This was treated (along with the ubiquity of CCTV in London) by the 2019 BBC show The Capture[0].
They glossed over a bunch of technical issues, but got the idea across pretty well.
Of course, they made the Americans look like the worse bad guys (no one comes out looking good, even the nominal "victim.") but that's to be expected, given the darkness the show attempts to purvey.
It's not great, but it absolutely provides context for the eventual advent of reasonable quality deep-fakes and the potential for abuse of the technology.
I'd expect that we'll see lots more of this sort of story telling, especially since any sort of video production (not including raw video footage) is never seen the way things actually are. As such, the "faking" (minus the deep-fakes with faces, etc.) is the key to the exercise.
Go watch the taping/filming of any television or movie and that will become immediately clear.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Capture_(TV_series)
Edit: Added the missing link.
You're describing a show like Modern Family. There's room for those types of shows. But something like The Capture is best left at 6 episodes and at best a couple seasons.
You should watch The Capture :)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8201186/
I suggest watching a British mini-TV show "The Capture", about this problem.