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The Moon landing was fake and climate change is a hoax. You don’t need deepfakes to trick people. Some people are just wired to believe in conspiracy theories

• krapp 8y ago
  That's true. People see stock footage from After Effects in a Youtube video or a lens flare or a bad Maya model and believe it's credible evidence of ghosts or UFOs or politicians secretly revealing themselves to be reptilians. Not a lot of people actually need video to be convincing to be convinced by it - bias is self sustaining.
  • melling 8y ago
    15 years ago I worked with a computer programmer who believed the Moonlanding was fake. Join any discussion on climate change in the Wall Street Journal and you’ll see a large number of people who believe it’s also fake.
• trashtester 8y ago
  Most of humanity is completely unable to personally verify the claims made by climate scientists. For most people is mostly a consequence of who they trust and what they want to believe. Deepfakes have the capacity remove one of the few ways to convince "ordinary people", ie video. If only specialists can tell the difference (and perhaps even they), different groups will be able to construct complete alternate realities for themselves. That is likely to lead to war.
• jobigoud 8y ago
  Now imagine this for everything, all the time, including all previous videos ever made.