[thfuran]

I think that's a really bad take. The difficulty of making many categories of lies is radically decreasing. That it has long been possible for a well-funded vfx team to do something doesn't mean nothing will change when it becomes possible for anyone with a cellphone and five minutes of free time to do the same thing.

[cj]

> anyone with a cellphone and five minutes of free time

One could argue that this will be a good thing because deep fakes will be so prevalent (e.g. kids making videos of their parents saying and doing funny things) that the default assumption is that everything is fake until proven not fake.

[macintux]

The default assumption will be, as it mostly is already, that anything you want to believe is true, and anything you don't, is fake.

Thanks to a businessman/politician who turned "news about me I don't like" into "fake news", we got a jump start on that.

[2devnull]

Lower trust societies are better if you enjoy living in a warzone and being oppressed by a tyrannical government.

[pixl97]

> default assumption is that everything is fake until proven not fake.

This is what it's like living under an authoritarian government. "Of course the government is lying", "Of course the politician is lying", "Of course my neighbor is lying", "Of course the company is providing me with a fraudulent product"

This eventually turns into a kind of learned helplessness and is how you create a crapsack nation/world. "Everything is bad, so there is no reason I should do anything good"

I can promise you that you won't enjoy this world we're creating if you don't live in an authoritarian shithole already.

[thfuran]

Why would that be a good thing?