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by malloryerik 2678 days ago
Or false incrimination, false flag operations and so on. You can start a war with a video. That might change to some degree as trust in video decreases, but what trust will take its place?
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We could already, and we probably did, fake video to start wars. The tech just make it easy for everybody, but state actors have been manipulating pictures for a long time.
Looks like tribalism so far. Signalling group membership and other kinds of virtue signalling, probably overriding rationalism and evidence.