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by phkahler 358 days ago
>> Realistic AI video generation will put us firmly in a post-truth era.

Verifiable authenticity might just be the next big thing.

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It’s already a thing in some cameras. New Leicas will embed a cryptographic signature in the photo.
People don’t want authenticity. They want confirmation of what they already think.
People want authentic confirmation of what they already think, which makes it easy to give them the confirmation and lie to them about the authenticity.

If they can't have both, some people prefer confirmation to authenticity. But that's far from a universal preference.