I feel like there was a small golden factual era in humanity were you could easily prove something with a photo and then a video. It's soon over, we'll have to get back to trusting testimonies like it was before for daily life, or scientific police for when it's worth the cost.
Fuck AI
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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We keep asking the question if we can, but not if we should
As usual China is the trendsetter of horrific digital developments and they‘ve been using heavy filters by default for so long I was almost hoping we‘d skip out on this one.
I‘m not looking forward to scrolling through family photos soon and barely recognize the people in them because my boomer family forgot to uncheck a box somewhere and didn‘t really notice we‘re all looking like Tom Cruise or Scarlet Johansson lookalikes all of the sudden.
We are fucked.
Agreed
And what's the point of developing this technology, anyway? What problem does destroying the veracity of photographs solve?