No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. - eviltoast
  • HiddenLychee@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Photoshop has existed for years. It’s no different than a student in 2010 being shocked at the horrors of man and trying to figure out how it could be faked with a computer. People have denied the Holocaust for generations!

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      4 months ago

      This argument keeps missing that it is not only the quality but mainly the quantity of fakes which is going to be the problem. The complete undermining of trust in photographic evidence is seen as a good thing for so many nefarious vested interests, that this is an aim they will actively strive for.

    • bluemite@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      It is different. The old Photoshop process took a lot of time. Now an image can be manipulated incredibly quickly and spread almost as fast before anyone has time to do anything about it.