Here is a random thought regarding SciFi and the implicit belief in videos as truth: Can you think of any scifi author the predicted Deep Fakes? As in, nobody trusts any videos or photos they see because video AI fakery is so prevalent as to make video useless?
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Replying to @zedshaw
IIRC Iain Banks' "The Player of Games" touched on this idea briefly. In the Culture, only videos recorded/verified by trusted AIs could be believed as any other video could be readily generated. In this case, it was brought up in the context of blackmail.
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Replying to @jengbers
A few folks have mentioned Banks.
10:48 AM - 17 May 2019
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