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This kind of belief doesn't survive contact with the kind of person bad fakes are targeted at. They're not stupid people, they're just people who've lived long
by mkr-hn 5y ago
This kind of belief doesn't survive contact with the kind of person bad fakes are targeted at. They're not stupid people, they're just people who've lived long enough to feel confident in their understanding of the world, and that understanding has at best an abstract concept of deep fakes. It only has to be more convincing than what they expect a fake to look like.
- tfigment 5y agoI would argee that if it confirms a view they already hold or are inclined to believe then that is all that is needed.
- XorNot 5y agoIt's also to drive a narrative: think of all the discussions on HN where we're reacting to the headline and not the article. This is a dynamic we've not seen before - Zelensky is out and about so he's seen by his people, but a huge amount of this entire effort is being shared online through social media. You don't have to convince people its authentic - you can just convince everyone that everything is fake.