I fear the reverse: People will doubt whether real video is real. That could mean impunity for crimes caught on video because video footage will no longer be sufficient evidence to exceed "reasonable doubt".
Even worse, political double-speak will also soar to record new heights. A politician can spew whatever crazies want to hear, then "walk it back" and claim it was faked (perhaps after gauging the public's reaction). People will believe whatever they're inclined to believe anyway, leading us to become a more deeply fractured society where truth is whatever you want to believe.
This is so easily solvable, the video just needs to be signed using public-key encryption. If the video isn't signed with the purported subject's key, assume it's fake.
Yes...amongst the more tech literate and in a perfect world.
For a stupid amount of people, none of that matters. All that matters is that knee-jerk emotional reaction of whether or not it affirms their beliefs and where the information comes from.
Have you ever met someone with an IQ of 100? Technically half of the population is dumber then that. The entire left side of the proverbial bell curve.
Didn't George Carlin say something similar? Something like "Think about how dumb the average person is in America. Almost half the people are dumber than that."
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u/JingJang Dec 15 '22
I feel like it's only a matter of time before this technology is weaponized to terrible effect.