• Th4tGuyII
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    903 months ago

    Image manipulation has always been a thing, and there are ways to counter it…

    But we already know that a shocking amount of people will simply take what they see at face value, even if it does look suspicious. The volume of AI generated misinformation online is already too damn high, without it getting more new strings in it’s bow.

    Governments don’t seem to be anywhere near on top of keeping up with these AI developments either, so by the time the law starts accounting for all of this, the damage will be long done already.

    • @[email protected]
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      113 months ago

      But it’s never been this absolutely trivial to generate and distribute completely synthetic media. THAT is the real problem here.

      • @[email protected]
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        73 months ago

        Yep, this is a problem of volume of misinformation, the truth can just get buried by one single person generating thousands of fake photos, it’s really easy to lie, it’s really time consuming to fact check.

        • @[email protected]
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          33 months ago

          That’s precisely what I mean.

          The effort ratio between generating synthetic visual media and corroborating or disproving a given piece of visual media has literally inverted and then grown by an order of magnitude in the last 3-5 years. That is fucking WILD. And more than a bit scary, when you really start to consider the potential malicious implications. Which you can see being employed all over the place today.

    • @[email protected]
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      33 months ago

      Honestly yeah I agree. Many mainstream social media platforms are infested with shitty generated content to the point of being insanity.

    • @Drewelite
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      13 months ago

      All hail the nail and gear 😉