Tank man, as in the guy who held up a few tanks, climbed on them, then walked away was the cause of global trade relation breakdown?
Or were you referring to something else that was televised and can you link to it?
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FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 3 months ago
In the thumbnail is the Tiananmen Square Tank Man.
Are you claiming a globally televised event which lead to a complete breakdown of trade relations across the world in the 90s, didn’t happen?
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Lol
They murdered thousands of people in cities across China.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
They murdered thousands of people in cities across China. Footage and imagery are very easily accessible all over the internet
Point me to a few!
you’re also arguing that there was no trade degredation between China and other nations after 1989?
Definitely not, just the cause
Vodulas@beehaw.org 3 months ago
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 3 months ago
The cause being what?
moomoomoo309@programming.dev 3 months ago
No, they’re saying it would be really easy to create a fake image that would have in the past had that level of impact.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Or alternatively, to alter images to minimize the impact of events that should, by calling their authenticity into question.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I don’t see how that would make a difference from pre-AI? It’s just bad actors doing their best to upset the world. They will make use of all and every tool they can to help them reach their goals, no matter the consequences. That has been true since the dawn of humanity and will be true until it’s fall next week.
moomoomoo309@programming.dev 3 months ago
Oh, of course, it’s just their tools have gotten much better. You could have said what you just did about the internet too, and it’d also be correct, but it definitely had a big impact.
Marin_Rider@aussie.zone 3 months ago
it’s faster. the fakes can get out there at virtually the same time as the “real” images. any story that may have built is already in dispute before it became a thing. and whimpers away. before if it took a day to get a convincing fake out people would be suspicious
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Present it
moomoomoo309@programming.dev 3 months ago
Fair, I should have said “for a bad actor”, of which I am not. I haven’t experience with the tools they’d use.