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Comment by Nition

21 hours ago

No longer being able to tell whether any image or video is real due to the extreme ease of creating realistic fakes, is itself a harm.

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Aerroon  17 hours ago

You've seen movies before. You know that they can make fake videos look realistic. We have an entire industry built around it, so why is it only a harm now?

  • Nition  17 hours ago

    Since it took a certain amount of time and effort, as well as skill in the past, it was a significantly lesser problem than it's becoming now. Especially with video footage.

    • WhrRTheBaboons  13 hours ago

      plus all the money and people involved created a paper trail, which meant proving something was "faked" much easier

      that no longer exists with genAI models

galkk  15 hours ago

It will be solved. Walleted, vertically integrated Apple can do a digital authenticity signature and guarantee that the video you see was at least shot on iPhone, and I won’t be surprised if it will happen soon. This + some lidar info will be enabled and everybody except minority will say that this is a great thing to have.

jay_kyburz  20 hours ago

It might actually be helpful to push through and out to the other side.

Think about how many completely fake videos are going to be flying around for the next election. Nobody is going to believe anything the see online.

What is the the next stage, where the only things you believe are things you see with your own eyes.

  • Barbing  20 hours ago

    >things you see with your own eyes

    Oh I wouldn't trust myself!

      In his study, "Nearly 2,000 witnesses can be wrong", Buckhout performed an experiment with 2,145 at-home viewers of a popular news broadcast. The television network played a 13-second clip of a mock robbery, produced by Buckhout. ... The people at home could call a number on their screen to report which suspect they believed was the perpetrator. The perpetrator was suspect number 2. ... Approximately equal contingents of participants chose suspects 1, 2, or 5, while the largest group of participants, about 25 percent, said they believed the perpetrator was not in the lineup. Even police precincts called in and reported the wrong man as the one they believed committed the crime.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_testimony#Reliabili...

    Also-mentioned concepts: misinformation effect, source misattribution, confirmation bias.