[ChrisMarshallNY]

I remember this, when it was first published.

Good article. One thing about fakes, is that they don't need to be super-high-quality, in many cases. They just need to be enough to reinforce a narrative to a receptive audience.

An example is that Kerry/Fonda fake. Just looking at it as a thumbnail on my phone, it was easy to see that it was a composite. Also, I have seen both photos, in their original contexts. They are actually fairly well-known images, in their own rights.

That didn't stop a whole lot of folks from thinking it was real. They were already primed.

The comment below, about using an AI "iterative tuner" is probably spot-on. It's only a matter of time, before fake photos, videos, and audio, are par for the course.

[wussboy]

I used to think that the internet would be the greatest tool for human peace ever invented. But I was wrong. I didn’t know that humans don’t use reason to determine their position. The use it to justify their position and Google provides the greatest tool ever built for allowing people to do exactly that.