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On one hand - I have a very small hope that in the future all video evidence will be treated as potentially fake and unreliable. On the other - it will be a hor
by Yizahi 6y ago
On one hand - I have a very small hope that in the future all video evidence will be treated as potentially fake and unreliable. On the other - it will be a horror show with real criminals. Our future is a bleak one.
- simias 6y agoI really don't see why you hope for that since, as you point out, once deepfakes are good enough (which might already be the case) we can't even trust our own eyes anymore. Plato's cave allegory is going to be a very real, practical concern for people in a few decades. There won't be any record, any evidence that couldn't trivially be falsified at a large scale. You can have AIs generate serious-looking thesis written by serious-looking people with serious-looking credentials from a serious-looking university in a real-looking city and all of it be faked at scale. Terrifying indeed.
- tal8d 6y agoThere are going to be a lot of people who share that hope, given the rapidly shifting window of permissible thought and deed - combined with technology's unblinking eye. I always thought that bit rot would act in such a manner, because it is getting harder every year to faithfully preserver internet events... but this might do the job sooner.
- Yizahi 6y agoExactly. To clarify, my first sentence was about a state when this so called "deep fake" tech is already present and used but courts and judges didn't caught up yet and are treating any photo/video evidence as real by default.
- dwighttk 6y agoThere is no video in the article, just a still image.