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0 pointspjc501y ago0 comments

> everyone will start doubting any videos they watch.

This kills the medium.

Just as ubiquitous scam calls have moved people away from phones, this moves people away from using media which cannot be trusted. Done enough this destroys reporting and therefore democracy. I wonder when the first nonexistent candidate will be elected.

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BurningFrog1y ago· 2 in thread

We've had Photoshop for decades, and I still see pictures everywhere.

latexr1y ago

Again this tired argument. Photoshop requires skill and time. AI generation takes a few seconds of typing some words. The scale is not comparable.

wpm1y ago

And let’s not pretend image generation AI isn’t already in a state where it can pump out convincing slop. Facebook is full of it.

GreenWatermelon1y ago

This sounds like saying Text, as a medium, is already destroyed. But as we can see, despite thousands of years of fraud potential, we still use text a medium. We're back to needing witnesses and corroborating evidence.

Eisenstein1y ago

It is inevitable at this point that video as 'proof' will be killed. That we cannot do reporting and it destroying democracy is a little too much 'sky is falling'. Democracy existed before video.

barryrandall1y ago

The market for content that reassures people their preexisting views are right and valid is huge, evergreen, and held to the lowest possible standard.

vasco1y ago

I'm not sure I can take seriously arguments of "killing democracy", that undermines whatever point you're making in the same way people that worry about crime and shout "think of the children" or immediately go to "stopping terrorism". Just make your point without hyperbole.

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