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Remember the fairy photo hoax that fooled Lewis Carrol? There was never a time when authenticated photo and video could be trusted without knowing the source a

• j-bos 1y ago
  It fooled Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a motivated believer, not Lewis Carrol. People will believe what they want. Trust is the fundamental issue.
  • psychoslave 1y ago
    Lewis Carroll also was fooled by it, when Churchill showed to him. Abraham Lincoln who was there at the moment it happened confirmed that to me, I can show you the original email he sent me about it (bar the elements I'll have to hide due to top secret information being included in the rest of the message).
• const_cast 1y ago
  Sure, but scale matters. 99% of images being fake is a different situation than 1% being fake. We can't just ignore that in favor of a "this always happened" argument. Everything has always happened, so who cares? We need to go deeper than that. Many things that are perfectly a-okay today are only so because we do it on a small enough scale. Many perfectly fine things, if we scale them up, destroy the world. Literally. Even something as simple as pirating, which I support, would melt all world economies if everyone did it with everything.