THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: team filler on February 13, 2023, 03:11:42 AM
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(https://i.imgur.com/sOMyGgi.jpeg)
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(https://i.imgur.com/nSgHhRF.jpeg) :-[
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Just a day after the tweet screencapped in the one in the OP was tweeted a similar graphic was posted:
(https://i.imgur.com/wISJC9h.png)
Which she since deleted after it was pointed out to her the guy has six fingers (apart from obviously having signs of more illustrative style).
There are people creating things just because they're just interesting, which then get re-purposed by others, though some images may be deliberately designed to undermine public confidence in reporting of various events by independent sources.
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This is just an evolution of the morons who, every time there's a disaster, always post photos from old disasters with a new caption.
Attention seeking cunts feeding on human misery looking for social media clout.
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Attention seeking cunts feeding on human misery looking for social media clout.
That just sounds like Kotaku tbh.
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(https://i.imgur.com/DVkWJPi.jpeg)
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I feel like the core of the XKCD message (IRL creations will still matter) is accurate but the reasoning is lukewarm. The bottleneck for convincing fakes has always been technical, which is why in the past it was never super common and required experts to distinguish and also not as much of a concern broadly.
The pacifying message in the comic is meant to be that since doctored media has existed in the past and real media has thrived during the same time that real media will still hold meaning. It kind of glosses over though that it's only because of the smaller volume of it and ability to identify it (via human-made mistakes) that it hasn't been an issue.
Deepfakes (and anything convincingly 'AI' generated) aren't necessarily a willingness to lie. Most deepfaked videos are disclosed as such and made for fun, curiosity or sexual reasons. Similarly for most neural net generated images.
There is a valid concern that perhaps it will became too difficult for most, and perhaps variously for experts, to eventually distinguish fiction from reality and with the lower barrier to creating convincing fictional media will mean it could be everywhere not just limited to select, higher stakes scenarios / those attempting to lie (situations which inherently have greater scrutiny/skepticism).
One could picture this could increase cynicism for everything. Video, image, audio, text, handwriting, art, news. When people have to second-guess whether something is 'real' for things they wouldn't have expected before. Real media (if provable) will perhaps even have more zest in such a scenario, like some have speculated. I suppose not dissimilar to how Tom Cruise now prefers to do as much practically in the face of a CG-normalized industry where people have 'seen it all'.
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I generally agree with the XKCD comic, but it is also easier to quickly spread misinformation than ever before. There are more people looking at it and a better chance of spotting fake images, misquoted words, misattributions, etc. but it doesn't seem to slow down my relatives on Facebook a lick.
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It will be easier and ever to convince everyone that your hot girlfriend that lives in Canada is real :preach
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https://twitter.com/dril/status/1626306129658773504