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by SirMaster 662 days ago
But anyone could have already paid someone who is decent enough at photoshop to make a convincing edited photo. It's not like you yourself needed to be good at photoshop for it to poison any image that someone wanted.
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People could previously have afforded to get that done for any specific image, but now it's now possible for a propagandist to give each and every resident of the USA their own personalised faked image for a total cost of about $25k (if their electricity costs $0.1/kWh).