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by argentinian 5 hours ago
Now they cause harm because there's people that may believe a fake video is real. But people is developing skepticism about what they see in videos and learning to think that they may be generated, before taking them as true.

What kind of harms do you have in mind?
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Nition 3 hours ago
No longer being able to tell whether any image or video is real due to the extreme ease of creating realistic fakes, is itself a harm.
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jay_kyburz 3 hours ago
It might actually be helpful to push through and out to the other side.

Think about how many completely fake videos are going to be flying around for the next election. Nobody is going to believe anything the see online.

What is the the next stage, where the only things you believe are things you see with your own eyes.

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Barbing 2 hours ago
>things you see with your own eyes

Oh I wouldn't trust myself!

  In his study, "Nearly 2,000 witnesses can be wrong", Buckhout performed an experiment with 2,145 at-home viewers of a popular news broadcast. The television network played a 13-second clip of a mock robbery, produced by Buckhout. ... The people at home could call a number on their screen to report which suspect they believed was the perpetrator. The perpetrator was suspect number 2. ... Approximately equal contingents of participants chose suspects 1, 2, or 5, while the largest group of participants, about 25 percent, said they believed the perpetrator was not in the lineup. Even police precincts called in and reported the wrong man as the one they believed committed the crime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_testimony#Reliabili...

Also-mentioned concepts: misinformation effect, source misattribution, confirmation bias.

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