How is this worse than the last 30 years of Photoshopped war images?

onion2k · on March 16, 2022

People are less aware how well video can be faked with few resources, so they're more likely to believe it.

mFixman · on March 16, 2022

That's the same moral panic there used to be about Photoshop.

It turned out that people don't believe tricked imaged without any context.

onion2k · on March 16, 2022

That's the same moral panic there was about Photoshop, but it turned out that people don't believe tricked imaged without any context.

Photoshop exists because people believe images that have been modified. Pretty much every billboard, magazine cover, print advert, or Instagram post you see has been photoshopped literally because people believe images enough to make it worthwhile spending the time changing it to be 'better'.

Adobe built a multi-billion dollar business on the basis of tricking people with images that aren't real.

The assumption that it wouldn't work for video, or that people won't believe modified news images, is counter to all of the available evidence.

caf · on March 16, 2022

Although every mildly surprising authentic image is also now greeted by inevitable shouts of "FAKE!".

In a world of easy image trickery, people stopped believing any image they didn't want to believe.

tgv · on March 16, 2022

O, well, let me see: because people are more susceptible to believing a video than a picture and some accompanying text when it comes to statements by a person?