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by sofixa 233 days ago
> The way people dealt with it was witness testimony and physical evidence.

Which are inapplicable today.

> We will adjust

Will we? Maybe years later... per event. It's finally now dawning on the majority of Britons that Brexit was a mistake they were lied about.

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Brexit is a great example how you can just lie by writing stuff on the side of a bus, no fake photos or videos required
Exactly, it proves how easy it is to influence people. Which would be even easier with fake photos and videos.
> Maybe years later...

It is a concern... it took a few centuries for the printing press to spur the Catholic/Protestant wars and then finally resolve them.

> Which are inapplicable today.

No, they are not.

That has nothing to do with GenAI.
Yep, it's only made worse by it.