I don't understand why people think the ability to clone people into videos will have more of an effect than the ability to clone people into photos has hadhttps://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjye8a/reddit-fake-porn-app-daisy-ridley …
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the "takes for granted" thing is important in that it's experiential and more feeling than reasoning, like I'm sure fake audio/video is intensely disturbing to many, not simply troubling
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and the moral panic types writing about this stuff operate off that feeling of wrongness, the fear of it
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because the thing they always forget is authoritative audio/video has barely existed for more than a century and we got along fine before it
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and many of those older people are judges
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lol remember that time the fbi literally invented a fake forensic science
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and judges/juries have all been primed for decades to believe "forensic evidence" means "unimpeachable"
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it turns out arson investigation techniques are no more scientific than alchemy and several people have been locked up for decades wrongfully
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just as ONE random example
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there's also like, lie detectors
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haha I was thinking of the hair analysis one
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did you know you can beat a polygraph by clenching your asshole so now they employ what is called a "countermeasures cushion" to detect this
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oh man, to some degree this is even still true of written words describing something specifically
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literally the whole ~fake news~ thing is "you can write basically any words and some cohort will believe them"
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old people call it "airbrushing" but it's basically the same thing
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you can doctor photos with an exacto knife and some glue
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