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I'm enamored and terrified at the same time. As a documentary film editor this is going to literally save my ass for those times when production didn't quite g

I'm enamored and terrified at the same time. As a documentary film editor this is going to literally save my ass for those times when production didn't quite get it right. As a citizen, hacker / child of the 80's whose watched a few successive generations come around I feel it's going to be that much harder to have a good bullshit detector. I've watched in disbelief as my peers believe in whatever happens to be printed and watched culminating into our currrent fake news catastrophe. I predict an even greater rift between the skeptical few and the duped masses. Maybe there's hope? Maybe when nothing can be believed anymore everyone will be forced to become skeptics. I doubt it though. It takes good mentors and willing minds to develop good bullshit detectors. It's sadly not something that is obvious to most in my experience.

untog 9y ago
> Maybe when nothing can be believed anymore everyone will be forced to become skeptics. I don't think that's a good thing, though. Right now you can catch a politician in a lie, on tape. Once that's easily faked people will just see whatever confirms their preexisting bias. It's something more than being a skeptic - when there's no definitive proof of anything, you just pick and choose what you believe.
- foota 9y ago
  There was an interesting take on this in black mirror, the idea was that sensor technology would grow quickly enough that you could produce high enough quality fakes to stay ahead.
- wizardforhire 9y ago
  Great point! Reminds me of The Ouroboros of Scientific Evidence.
LV-426 9y ago
I think you could achieve the same result (if not better, since fewer people are likely to sit through a video) with an image of a snappy fake quote next to someone. People who want to believe "fake news" will believe it, people who don't care, won't care, and people who think it sounds unlikely or don't want to believe it will either disbelieve it or hopefully attempt to fact check it. To take a more positive view of this kind of tech, I think it has promise in producing satirical content.
logicallee 9y ago
>As a documentary film editor this is going to literally save my ass for those times when production didn't quite get it right. ??? Documentary = non-fiction, isn't it? I mean, would you use CGI to show someone doing something you didn't quite record them doing?

untog 9y ago

> Maybe when nothing can be believed anymore everyone will be forced to become skeptics. I don't think that's a good thing, though. Right now you can catch a politician in a lie, on tape. Once that's easily faked people will just see whatever confirms their preexisting bias. It's something more than being a skeptic - when there's no definitive proof of anything, you just pick and choose what you believe.

foota 9y ago
There was an interesting take on this in black mirror, the idea was that sensor technology would grow quickly enough that you could produce high enough quality fakes to stay ahead.
wizardforhire 9y ago
Great point! Reminds me of The Ouroboros of Scientific Evidence.

LV-426 9y ago

I think you could achieve the same result (if not better, since fewer people are likely to sit through a video) with an image of a snappy fake quote next to someone. People who want to believe "fake news" will believe it, people who don't care, won't care, and people who think it sounds unlikely or don't want to believe it will either disbelieve it or hopefully attempt to fact check it. To take a more positive view of this kind of tech, I think it has promise in producing satirical content.

logicallee 9y ago

>As a documentary film editor this is going to literally save my ass for those times when production didn't quite get it right. ??? Documentary = non-fiction, isn't it? I mean, would you use CGI to show someone doing something you didn't quite record them doing?