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Of course, no one now can know for sure what the consequences will be.... but I'm intrigued by the possibility that this might be a good thing. Could this help
by jamesrcole 9y ago
Of course, no one now can know for sure what the consequences will be.... but I'm intrigued by the possibility that this might be a good thing. Could this help make people more savvy about evidence, and less focused on the concrete and superficial? Like I said, I -- we -- don't know.
Perhaps the effect of spam and phishing on the general population provides some insight into this. Have they increased the degree of healthy scepticism and delayed judgement in the population overall? I don't think there's any knee-jerk obvious answer to that, but perhaps there has been some research into that.
- siidooloo 9y agoPeople are situationally sceptical. We tend to be sceptical of things we already don't believe, but not of things we do. We can expect people now and in the future to question an images authenticity if it questions something they want to believe.
- bsenftner 9y agoAnd more dangerously, if they already agree with the majority of the image's content, and there is an introduction of fictional content: that false information gets baked into the observer's mind as belonging to their "trusted information". And that is a major perception problem with humans.