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I wonder how much of that is innate and how much of that is because we're not used to fake pictures on a scale AI will allow yet
by dtech 3y ago
I wonder how much of that is innate and how much of that is because we're not used to fake pictures on a scale AI will allow yet
- anigbrowl 3y agoMost of it is innate. We've known photos can be faked for a long time, it was a lesson in my history textbook in high school. We've known that anyone could fake a photo using a computer for a long time too, image editing software got good in the 1990s. And so on. Rationally, we know all this. But biologically, we're wired to react first and think later; our reactions often shape our behavior more than logic. That's one reason that advertising and propaganda work; repetition trumps rationality. Add in the fact that large numbers of people are gullible fools who can be trained to uncritically repeat and spread untruths that appeal to confirmation bias.
- rcoveson 3y agoI disagree. I've known photos could be faked my whole life but I doubt I've ever been presented with a fake photo of somebody I know, and I'm confident nobody has ever faked a photo of me that I've seen. A world where anybody can fake a photo of anybody else with nothing but a laptop and a text prompt is radically different. It's not the abstract knowledge that something is possible that influences our gut reactions, its our experiences. When your friend group chat is chock-full of little jokingly-made fake images of each other, then your behavior of reacting to realistic photos as though they were real will dull and eventually go away entirely.