Comment on A.I. Video Generators Are Now So Good You Can No Longer Trust Your Eyes
dontsayaword@piefed.social 5 months agoTo no longer be able to trust video evidence is a big deal. Sure the sky isn’t falling, but this is a massive step beyond what Photoshop enabled, and a major powerup for disinformation, which was already winning.
You couldn’t “trust” video before sora et al. We had all these sightings of aliens and flying saucers - which stopped conveniently having an impact when everybody started carrying cameras around.
There will be a need to verify authenticity and my prediction is that need will be met.
All those tech CEOs met up with Trump makes me think this is a major reason for pouring money in to this technology. Any time Trump says “fake news”, he can just say it is AI.
Venator@lemmy.nz 5 months ago
except that you still can trust video evidence if you examine the video carefully … for now …
JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 5 months ago
But what if your phone comes with nice AI filters? The fake videos get more and more real and the real videos get more and more fake