<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 1:31 PM efc--- via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Think about it, if you can no longer trust any video of a politician on <br>
any media, how will you make judgments about the world? How will that <br>
impact the democratic political process?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>By not imparting sole veracity to videos.</div><div><br></div><div>We are there already. Think about it: what happens, today, when someone posts a deepfake video about a politician? Only the most gullible
(which is, sadly, too many) - who would believe such claims without any evidence, so whether evidence is forged doesn't matter to them - fall for it The rest of us look for, and usually quickly find, clues outside the video as to whether the incident shown in the video did or did not happen.</div></div></div>