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There have been photographic fakes for a long time now, and they were quite good even in the pre-digital era. Have you seen it creating major social issues? I
by nitwit005 7y ago
There have been photographic fakes for a long time now, and they were quite good even in the pre-digital era.
Have you seen it creating major social issues? I haven't observed much of anything.
For the lies most people want to tell, there isn't any need to make a fake. Want to paint a protest in a bad light? Just use a real photo of a riot and falsely label it as the current protest.
- kevingadd 7y agoWith how readily fake/modified content proliferates on the internet already and how much money tabloids make off made-up stories and faked photos, can you really argue that there is zero negative social impact from fakes? Even for someone with decent media literacy, proving 'this is faked' is a lot harder than 'this is some old content falsely labeled as new content', because you can't just look for the original source. You have to try to identify what the original source was pre-fake, and that's a LOT harder with deepfakes.
- nitwit005 7y agoI didn't argue there was zero negative impact. I just said it wasn't major. If the tabloids were unable to make fake photos, would it affect anything at all? They can just write up a fake article without a photo. The actual act of making fake media just isn't necessary for any of this behavior.
- andreilys 7y agoPizza Gate led to an armed individual shooting up a pizza store because he thought it was an undercover pedo ring. So yeah, I imagine the fabrication, proliferation and automated spreading of conspiracy theories to have potential major societal impact
- nitwit005 7y agoYou're arguing against some sort of straw man argument I didn't make, but I'm not entirely sure what it is.