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What if we took the other approach. Currently fake media can bring all sorts of negative consequences because people are conditioned to trust media to a degree
by admax88q 6y ago
What if we took the other approach. Currently fake media can bring all sorts of negative consequences because people are conditioned to trust media to a degree. "Most" of the media is true-ish, so a well crafted hoax will be believed by many.
But what if we saturated the media with convincing deep fakes. I feel like there's an inflection point, where people are exposed to so much believable but contradictory fake news, that they might develop a natural distrust of anything presented to them. Believing that the media is for the most part true, sets you up to be manipulated or misled when the media gets it wrong.
- Xylakant 6y agoWhat's the result of this? That would mean I basically can no longer believe anything at all which is reported anywhere. Which means my knowledge of events shrinks down to what I can verify personally - which is a regression to pre-print times.
- QuercusMax 6y agoThis is also a propaganda technique made famous by Putin's Russia - the Firehose of Falsehood. Make people so unsure of everything they don't know what to believe, which makes them easier to manipulate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood
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- pizza 6y agoYou would probably get something that is worse than the status quo, in my opinion. When people feel like they cannot trust anything generally that's quite bad.