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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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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (3 children)

There was actually a user on Lemmy that asked if the original photo for the massacre was AI. It hadn’t occurred to me that people who never heard of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre would find the image and question if it was real or not.

A very sad sight, a very sad future.

[–] HiddenLychee 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Photoshop has existed for years. It's no different than a student in 2010 being shocked at the horrors of man and trying to figure out how it could be faked with a computer. People have denied the Holocaust for generations!

[–] uienia 7 points 2 months ago

This argument keeps missing that it is not only the quality but mainly the quantity of fakes which is going to be the problem. The complete undermining of trust in photographic evidence is seen as a good thing for so many nefarious vested interests, that this is an aim they will actively strive for.

[–] bluemite 4 points 2 months ago

It is different. The old Photoshop process took a lot of time. Now an image can be manipulated incredibly quickly and spread almost as fast before anyone has time to do anything about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Were they from the .ml instances?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

How is it sad? If they’re young and/or don’t have the best schooling, it’s not their fault they haven’t heard of it. And then they encounter an absurd picture and approach it with skepticism? That’s not sad at all. Healthy skepticism is good, especially with the influx of AI generated content