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It's always so odd when people assume that there were no functioning legal systems during the tens of thousands of years of human history before photography was
by woah 6y ago
It's always so odd when people assume that there were no functioning legal systems during the tens of thousands of years of human history before photography was invented
- xmprt 6y agoPeople lived before the Internet existed but it would be a huge setback if we lost it. Similarly, advancements in technology have allowed for our justice systems to be a lot better and it would be a real shame if we lost that because of deepfakes. I'm not saying it will go that far, but it's totally normal to be wary of it.
- buran77 6y agoThe question is how effective that justice system was, not whether it existed or not. It's the same with medicine, it existed for quite some time but the effectiveness increased drastically and you wouldn't want to roll back all that progress. The reality is that for most of those tens of thousands of years justice systems were mostly a sham where the focal point wasn't actually determining innocence but rather the appearance of justice and pleasing (some) people.
- tshaddox 6y agoOr now, for the vast majority of cases where direct photographic evidence would be useful but does not exist.