I wonder how the courts and elections will survive if this type of fake ever exceeds our bandwidth and investment to detect them. Maybe ultimately no one will believe video any more? Maybe people will ignore fake detection and go with whatever their biases tell them is true? Either way electing or convicting anyone might become too easy to manipulate.
Maybe ultimately no one will believe video any more?
People believe whatever they want to believe; forensic hair analysis (not DNA) is also quite a controversial practice, it's still accepted as evidence by many courts in the US. Last Week Tonight had a bit about that issue in a recent episode [0]
It's sad and mindblowing that people have been sentenced to prison/death because a so-called "expert witness" confused a dogs hair with being their hair.
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I wonder how the courts and elections will survive if this type of fake ever exceeds our bandwidth and investment to detect them. Maybe ultimately no one will believe video any more? Maybe people will ignore fake detection and go with whatever their biases tell them is true? Either way electing or convicting anyone might become too easy to manipulate.
People believe whatever they want to believe; forensic hair analysis (not DNA) is also quite a controversial practice, it's still accepted as evidence by many courts in the US. Last Week Tonight had a bit about that issue in a recent episode [0]
It's sad and mindblowing that people have been sentenced to prison/death because a so-called "expert witness" confused a dogs hair with being their hair.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScmJvmzDcG0