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What if we put out enough deepfakes that they get desensitized to it and just stop believing stuff on screens altogether?

• dredmorbius 4y ago
  Past experience suggests that that likely won't be too effective. "Big lie" propaganda is profoundly effective, even amongst those who are painfully aware of its existence and methods as individuals, and at the population level, there seem to be virtually no defences. Rather, there'll need to be the emergence of credible and trustworthy channels which verify messaging and content before it's widely disseminated. That largely means re-implementing the sort of media gatekeepers we've seen in the past. Though the challenge of bad-faith actors emerging in such roles at considerable scale points to further challenges, even with that model. Under a regime in which free speech is considered a fundamental right, any sort of preemptive management by government mandate becomes intensely difficult.
  • dylan604 4y ago
    >"Big lie" propaganda is profoundly effective, I mean, people still believe we put men on the moon, and people still believe the Earth is round! /s
    • dredmorbius 4y ago
      Some even subscribe to the belief that water is wet.