• Oka
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    3 months ago

    Because images and video were definitive proof at one point, but even before AI, they can be altered with image software.

    • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caOP
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      3 months ago

      Very true. It’s the immediacy of it that struck me this morning.

      If I make a post telling you that I met Elvis Presley as an old man and you respond with “Pics or it didn’t happen”. I can literally post a reply to you within a couple of minutes (If I knew where to go) of me meeting an elderly Elvis Presley. Whereas before I’d have to put some effort into it, and then respond a day later with my finished photoshop creation. The immediacy lends it credibility in the way that traditional photo manipulation didn’t.