> That fear is founded on the longstanding principle that seeing is believing. But it seems as though that old axiom may not be true anymore This was never tru

> That fear is founded on the longstanding principle that seeing is believing. But it seems as though that old axiom may not be true anymore This was never true. First, one is not “seeing” a thing when it is witnessed through a medium. One is witnessing a representation, not the thing. Seeing in the axiom above means, for lack of a better term, “eyeballing”. Further, any magician will tell you that eyeballing something doesn’t mean you’re seeing what you think you’re seeing. I have a hard time relating to this whole “omg, deep fakes horrible” thing, I’m in my 50’s and I relate to the author’s son’s outlook more closely. I have a counter to that axiom from modified old country wisdom: “Don’t believe anything you hear and only half of what you eyeball”