Absolutely everyone can was about 20 years ago though.
Comment on Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.
Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoThe thing is, faking them went from a State can do it, to a professional can do it, an experienced amateur can do it, to absolutely everyone can
westyvw@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Kache@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
There’s the practical distinction between “everyone can do it with some dedicated intent” (so very few actually bother) vs everyone can do it on a whim"
westyvw@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Admittedly a computer in everyone’s hand is new. But corel paint, for example, was 12 years old in 2003. People were basically making memes and creating scenes that never existed on a whim and for the lulz back then.
And were much, much, better then these stupid examples!
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I remember in the UK show Utopia from 2013, a government frames one of the characters for a school shooting by perfectly doctoring security footage to erase the actual hired shooter and replace them with a specific kid. And they do it all in a matter of hours. I remember thinking that tech was unrealistic, probably impossible. The best Hollywood VFX experts would need a week or more to make it that believable, and even they would need a ton of reference of both the kid and the lightning. Purely fantastical tech.
And now, here we are…
halm@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
…to “now it’s just a background process running on your phone”.
Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
I think this is the crux of the article. In the past most people have considered photographic evidence to be very convincing. Sure, you could be removed from a photo of Stalin, and later people could do photoshop (with varying realism), now it’s a few words to make changes that many people believe without hesitation. Soon it will happen to video too, very soon.