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No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. (www.theverge.com)
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[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep, this is a problem of volume of misinformation, the truth can just get buried by one single person generating thousands of fake photos, it's really easy to lie, it's really time consuming to fact check.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

That’s precisely what I mean.

The effort ratio between generating synthetic visual media and corroborating or disproving a given piece of visual media has literally inverted and then grown by an order of magnitude in the last 3-5 years. That is fucking WILD. And more than a bit scary, when you really start to consider the potential malicious implications. Which you can see being employed all over the place today.