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I've been afraid of this for years. I guarantee you that there exist (or will exist) highly profitable consultancies which specialize in faking evidence. Just
by Barjak 8y ago
I've been afraid of this for years.
I guarantee you that there exist (or will exist) highly profitable consultancies which specialize in faking evidence. Just think about how easy it would be to launder a million here, a million there, disguised as legal fees in some of these large cases.
We're approaching the limits of the traditional legal system with human juries. I don't how to solve this in the long term. I'll speculate that the solution will involve blockchains and a new, more minimal, totally decentralized legal system.
- PeCaN 8y ago> I'll speculate that the solution will involve blockchains and a new, more minimal, totally decentralized legal system. ok
- zackmorris 8y agoI was thinking blockchain as well, but as a source of truth. Imagine if all information on the web was spidered and added to a blockchain, then as new details emerge, those would be appended to the original data. So when someone fakes a video, the original video could/would get appended to the fake, along with the source of the fake, its financial connections to propagandists, etc etc etc. The problem will eventually become sifting signal from noise, because the "proof" will be everywhere. I still believe that in the light of full information, most people will come to see the truth. That depends on a lot of things though, like being educated, like having the time away from work and family commitments to ponder the deeper questions of life, like understanding the difference between deductive reasoning and dogma, etc. These are all things that authoritarians work tirelessly to take away. I guess what I'm saying is that the problem will become political, not technological.