[olefoo]

I suspect it will be quite confusing for a while; but once people have been cheated a few times because of faked video it will become something else. We will all start picking up on peoples kinematics and timing.

There is an opportunity for some type of chain of custody app that guarantees the integrity of footage from camera to screen...

[Analemma_]

> I suspect it will be quite confusing for a while; but once people have been cheated a few times because of faked video it will become something else.

You're only half-right here. People will quickly wise up to fake video, but that will just make everything worse: every video that confirms their worldview will be seen as totally legit, every video contradicting it will be "fake", just like what has already happened with text news. Your hypothetical chain of integrity between camera and screen won't put a dent in that conviction.

[olefoo]

> every video that confirms their worldview will be seen as totally legit, every video contradicting it will be "fake"

Yes, this has been true for quite some time already since even innocuous footage can be made to lie with creative editing.

The chain of custody thing is already a problem and has been since courts started admitting photographic evidence.

[e40]

We will all start picking up on peoples kinematics and timing.

A small percentage will, but just like text-based fake news, most people will fall for it, every single time.

Remember, fake video news that reinforces your world view will be so much easier to believe, just like with text-based news, than the truth.

[olefoo]

I'm not sure that most people fall for it every time; I think the problem is that many people prefer the fake version. They may know it's fake, but the lie that serves their prejudices is preferable to a truth that disadvantages them.

[PeterisP]

I'm not so sure if "we will all start picking up on peoples kinematics and timing" is going to happen - if anything, we should expect the video faking systems to adapt faster to this than masses of people; it currently has some issues with kinematics just because the concept is quite new and unpolished, give it an extra year or two, and those systems will pick up (and reproduce) the president's kinematics far better than I do.