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by wormer 1519 days ago
Right people should but this will only increase people being deluded, because of it's ease of use. And it's not like any of us are immune to being deluded either; I'm sure there are things I and others take as truths because the facts we found them upon were carefully fabricated to have no holes.

If I saw a masterfully crafted video of vaccines actually being implanted with microchips, wouldn't I believe it? I'm not an expert on identifying deepfakes, nor should I be just to consume media. I think this is a valid cause for concern and will make things worse rather than keep it the same.
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MartinCron 1518 days ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I wouldn't believe a masterfully crafted video of vaccines actually being implanted with microchips unless the video were authenticated by at least one reputable news source. Provenance matters, and just like we don't believe extraordinary things based on single out-of-context photograph, we shouldn't believe extraordinary things based on a single out-of-context video.

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chrisco255 1518 days ago
> unless the video were authenticated by at least one reputable news source

You pretend as if the news actually bothers to corroborate everything it prints. Sometimes, they actively disengage from corroboration or critical thinking, particularly when it's favorable to their party or unfavorable to their party (ALL news sources are biased).

The news is also entirely corruptible. They already have been for some time.

If the incentives are there for the owners of the media to craft a fiction, or to support a fictional or exaggerated narrative, they will do it.

But even if some imaginary world existed where the media was actually incorruptible, suppose they got duped and ran a deep fake video as if it were real news. Human psychology is such that the video could still take root in the popular imagination and influence real world outcomes as a result. Even after being demonstrated of a video's inauthenticity.

I'm deeply worried that we don't have the proper psychological immune systems to weed out deeply fake audiovisual productions and prevent them from influencing our decision making or perception of reality.

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