Juxtapose those millions of years of naturally encoded tropisms* with the <200 years of photographic technology. At the outset, intelligent adults were vulnerable to being deceived by retouching artifacts that we 21st century moderns recognize as obvious frauds. Consider Arthur Conan Doyle, convinced of visual proof of the existence of fairy beings by retouched images.
But that's nothing, compared to the motion picture era that began in the late 19th century. When people could be panicked out of a theater by a monochrome motion picture of an oncoming train, projected on a flat screen.
And now we have fairly mature hologram technology. CGI. AI video.
It isn't easy, switching the default setting for viewing photos and video to "It's All Bullshit." Especially with video. But it appears to me that continual vigilant skepticism is the only way to override the seductions of AI ability to confabulate photos and video.
I just found this AI fraud video on Substack a couple of weeks ago https://substack.com/@adwjeditor/note/c-194576170 I wasn't familiar with the "Kapwing" logo in the corner, so I keyworded and found that it's a website offering an AI online video generator. We can expect many more of these, including without any watermark. Many more, in the Future.
(*humans have on average 70% of their perception faculties dedicated to the visual sense. As you might be aware.)
Juxtapose those millions of years of naturally encoded tropisms* with the <200 years of photographic technology. At the outset, intelligent adults were vulnerable to being deceived by retouching artifacts that we 21st century moderns recognize as obvious frauds. Consider Arthur Conan Doyle, convinced of visual proof of the existence of fairy beings by retouched images.
But that's nothing, compared to the motion picture era that began in the late 19th century. When people could be panicked out of a theater by a monochrome motion picture of an oncoming train, projected on a flat screen.
And now we have fairly mature hologram technology. CGI. AI video.
It isn't easy, switching the default setting for viewing photos and video to "It's All Bullshit." Especially with video. But it appears to me that continual vigilant skepticism is the only way to override the seductions of AI ability to confabulate photos and video.
I just found this AI fraud video on Substack a couple of weeks ago https://substack.com/@adwjeditor/note/c-194576170 I wasn't familiar with the "Kapwing" logo in the corner, so I keyworded and found that it's a website offering an AI online video generator. We can expect many more of these, including without any watermark. Many more, in the Future.
(*humans have on average 70% of their perception faculties dedicated to the visual sense. As you might be aware.)