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Call me whatever you want, but this technology should not exist. People to just create lifelike videos of anything they can put their mind to, is bound to lead
by StarterPro 3y ago
Call me whatever you want, but this technology should not exist.
People to just create lifelike videos of anything they can put their mind to, is bound to lead to the ruining of many peoples' lives.
As many people that are aware and interested in this technology, there is 100x people who have no idea, don't care or can't comprehend it. Those are the people that I fear for. Grab a few pictures of the grandkids off of facebook, and now they have a realistic ransom video to send.
Am i being hyperbolic? I don't think so. Anything made by humans can be broken. And once its broken and out there, good luck.
- nurumaik 3y agoPeople will adapt pretty fast and will stop trusting videos
- jprete 3y agoYou mean like they stopped trusting the Internet, or YouTube videos, or newspapers, or old broadcast TV news? Except they didn't, because it's impossible to live life successfully without information sources beyond one's eyes and ears. That's why this technology should not exist.
- bigyikes 3y agouhhh… i would respond differently to your rhetorical question… there’s never been greater distrust of legacy media, and the fact that you can’t trust everything you read on the internet has been a trope for decades
- jprete 3y agoGood point.
- Nathanba 3y agoMaybe it's a useful thing to ponder why faked photoshopped pictures were never a big problem in human life. I think maybe it's because we use a lot of pictures in our lives, sure. But ultimately we have so much context that a fake would be easy to detect and therefore irrelevant. At most people used photoshop to alter images of documents.
- dorkwood 3y agoBecoming good enough at Photoshop to do a convincing face swap was something that took a lot of time and skill. Not everyone with a copy of Photoshop had the ability to create a compromising photo of a politician, for example.
- nurumaik 3y agoShould written language not exist as well? We can never say for sure that the words are true
- hackerlight 3y ago> stop trusting Yeah, that's a problem. Successful societies are built on trust, shared reality and communication. Democracy is a conversation. The big problem with technology is you can't uninvent technologies that turn out to be net bad. It becomes a perpetual curse once it's invented.
- ndjshe3838 3y agoIt’s kinda pointless to say though You can’t uninvent something
- arnaudsm 3y agoIt's called banning, and it happened many times in human history
- histories 3y agoAnd it never worked? Prohibitionism fails
- quenix 3y agoIt depends what you ban and how you ban it. I can think of many cases where banning does work.
- tgv 3y agoYeah, that's why we have school shootings every day in Europe and Australia. Oh wait, we don't. Banning might not work well for some things, but this can totally be banned. Your comment is a blatant misrepresentation of the effectiveness. At best. At worst, it's willful undermining of democracy.
- bacchusracine 3y ago>>Yeah, that's why we have school shootings every day in Europe and Australia. Oh wait, we don't. Banning might not work well for some things, but this can totally be banned. Sure, now let's talk about knife wounding and acid attacks... The fundamental issue of human violence still exists.
- tgv 3y agoYou're consciously changing the topic from the effect of banning guns to violence as human nature. That's low.
- peebeebee 3y ago"Lighters should not exist. Anyone can start a fire, all the time, everywhere. This will lead to an inferno in no time." etc.
- herculity275 3y agoYour sentence is a strawman but the logic does apply quite soundly to e.g. guns.
- Invictus0 3y agolighters have surely led to many infernos
- fritzo 3y ago"Writing should be restricted to the educated few who can responsibly carry the Church's message." -anti-technologist from 1000 years ago, probably