Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 13 hours agoReally? I remember tons of nicely photoshoped pictures on Snopes. There was a lot of trolling by people with skills going on.
Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 13 hours agoReally? I remember tons of nicely photoshoped pictures on Snopes. There was a lot of trolling by people with skills going on.
TheBat@lemmy.world 12 hours 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 12 hours 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 12 hours ago
Even then it feels like there were a lot less gullible people online 10 years back compared to today.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 12 hours ago
That was the first thing I’ve said. People are just dumber now.