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We're able to distinguish entertainment "fake" video from "real" video in our minds. The separation is not clear-cut, and fictional movies affect our thinking a

• baq 9y ago
  Now everybody will be able to create convincing fakes. That's not continuous progress, that's a phase change.
  • lolc 9y ago
    I'm sure the same line of argument was made when desktop printers became abundant.
    • baq 9y ago
      there's a reason photoshop won't work with scans of currency.
• eric_h 9y ago
  > fictional movies affect our thinking about real events A creative writing instructor of mine many years ago told a story about watching Saving Private Ryan with his grandfather, who was on the beach at Normandy for the invasion depicted in that movie. Watching the fictional movie had a profound emotional impact on him (driving him to tears) in a way that actual footage of the Normandy invasion never did. His point was that the power of fiction can be much greater than the power of fact. His take wasn't that this was a bad thing (it was a creative writing course, after all), but that fiction in service of the truth is a powerful tool and a useful one. Of course we didn't get into the power of fiction in service of misinformation, but this predated the current scourge of misinformation by about a decade and a half.