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> People believe that stuff far more easily than they believe something they read. I'm not convinced it's "far" more. People believe things they read extremely
by breuleux 3y ago
> People believe that stuff far more easily than they believe something they read.
I'm not convinced it's "far" more. People believe things they read extremely easily when they say what they want to hear. Propaganda is already efficient enough that there is little room for improvement. As for people who question what they read, they will also question what the see once they become aware of the power of deepfakes.
That's if they even watch the videos. I generally don't, because it's a waste of time when trustworthy people can watch them for me and tell me what's in them.
- The_Colonel 3y agoPeople not believing (real) photographic / video evidence is not great either. There's already this fronge group claiming that war in Ukraine is fake, but I expect such things to move more mainstream with generative AI.
- pphysch 3y agoIdeology is believing things a priori, sometimes despite any available evidence. There will always be ideology and ideologues, but it is sort of an orthogonal discussion to TFA. Ideologues simply don't care about the evidence, deepfaked or not, otherwise they wouldn't be ideologues.
- The_Colonel 3y agoThis is a very binary view. Every person is to a degree an ideologue, and to a degree believes evidence. Shifting the scale from "videographic evidence is pretty trustworthy" to "any video can be a fake and you have no chance to detect a difference" will make a big dent.