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Someone anonymously sends you a video of your best friend abusing a bunch of animals, don’t you want to have the skills to know if the video is real?
why would you think a video of your best friend abusing a bunch of animals is real?
Because until a few years ago videos were almost all real or easy to tell if they were fake
You have a shit best friend if you can see a video of them doing that and believe it to be true.
Okay so change the scenario you are given a video that shows your SO cheating on you. Your SO denies it happens, can you trust video evidence?
You are a member of a jury in a court of law and you are shown a video of the defendant killing another person the defendant claims it’s AI, can you trust video evidence?
You are watching the news and they play a clip of a politician saying some bad things, can you trust the video evidence?
You see a video of police beating a protestor, the police officer claims it was AI and the witnesses are antifa plants, CAN YOU TRUST VIDEO EVIDENCE?
Literally it’s the same thing over and over again but for over 100 years we could trust video evidence with a decent amount of certainty and now in the course of less than 5 years the ability to spot fake videos just became astronomically harder and the ability to make fake videos got much easier. That should be scary to you because I can guarantee you in the next 10 years at least one innocent person will be put in jail because of AI video and at least one guilty person will be kept out of jail because the prosecutor could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the video wasn’t AI
I was really hoping he’d try to refute these points because they’re excellent but I feel like he’s gonna ghost at this point
I responded. I have a life outside of lemmy though, so I'm not incessantly online like some of you
That's a lot of hypothetical. I'll play along.
No SO. Can't do jury duty. Don't watch news or listen to politicians. ACAB regardless of video and their lies. I honestly don't know why we even still trust video after the 2000s. Have you SEEN what they can do with moving images!? Nevermind bringing AI into it. Y'all been trusting supposed evidence for too long already anyway
You will play along by still completely missing the point…
This is like me saying imagine you are getting peanut butter at the store and your response is I don’t like peanut butter…
The human brain is incredibly complex. You should have the capacity to shut those eyes of yours real tight, turn your brain onto overdrive mode, and imagine a scenario where someone shows you a video and you have a desire to know if that video is real, if you can’t that’s fine but i am not going to waste my time I think most people get that skill during adolescence if you follow Piaget stages of cognitive development
Individually doctored pictures with a doctored voice that is very convincing that can be strung together with such skill that it can beat even an amateur forensic analysis was essentially unheard of in the 2000s now a days you can submit an audio file and some pictures into a computer and get a result in minutes with no skill whatsoever