Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks agoBecause the venn diagram of “people who would maliciously do something like this” and “people with good enough photoshop skills to make it look realistic” were nearly two separate circles. AI has added a third “people with access to AI image generators” circle, and it has a LOT of overlap with the second group simply because it is so large.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 weeks ago
Really? I remember tons of nicely photoshoped pictures on Snopes. There was a lot of trolling by people with skills going on.
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Those remained on email chains. Unlike social media of today where anyone can generate any image and send it to millions of gullible people in a second.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 weeks ago
Email chains? You’re thinking about some early internet 40 years ago. Twitter has 20 years, Instragram 15. People were sharing fake images on social media long before AI. I just can’t imagine anyone responsible making decisions like stopping trains based on a single image on the internet. You know easy would it be to post an image of a forest fire on Twitter? You don’t even have to fake it, simply take an image from some other fire. You make decisions like that based on credible calls, not something you saw online.
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Even then it feels like there were a lot less gullible people online 10 years back compared to today.