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>You don't look for signs of manipulation, you just wouldn't trust it at all without corroboration, I can type anything I like. But people still trust what the
by croes 2y ago
>You don't look for signs of manipulation, you just wouldn't trust it at all without corroboration, I can type anything I like.
But people still trust what they hear and see.
So audio and video clips get more trust than written words.
- Tempest1981 2y agoPresumably there is something in human instinct that trusting our eyes/ears helps us survive. Should we evolve to overcome this?
- wruza 2y agoWe can’t evolve overcome much more primitive shit. Don’t hold your breath here.
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- generic92034 2y agoI think the parent's point was that this should change, as faking audio and video clips is becoming almost as easy as writing articles with falsehoods.
- croes 2y agoWe alive still in times where some people believe anything they found written on the Internet. It takes a lot more time to get used to fake video and audio, especially in that mass and quality.
- naming_the_user 2y agoOur eyes and ears are trustworthy, what's not trustworthy are untrusted sources. The same applies to quotes. You can trust, well, as much as you can trust Hacker News, that what I've written is what I've written. But you can't trust that what I've written is a true representation of a real event.