"Not everyone is up to speed on how quickly the generative AI and deep fake space is evolving," Henry Ajder, expert in examining synthetic media, told Newsweek.
That’s because bellingcat want to convince everyone AI image fakes are really common and hard to spot when actually they’re pretty easy to spot these days and tend to only appeal to the already converted since as soon as you show someone something they disagree with, they don’t just change their minds they actually immediately seek to debunk it because that’s the lighter mental load.
Bellingcat don’t actually need to convince you deepfakes are a real thing because deepfakes are not a real problem. Their true desire is the ability to denounce even photographic evidence of atrocities as fake when it’s convenient for them to straight up deny reality.
I remember a similar panic when photoshop started to become good and usable for mainstream machines, and there was a time when obviously real stuff would be claimed to be "photoshopped" just because people seemed to think that photoshopped images were utterly indistinguishable from real ones.
Then, rather quickly, people figured out that there are softwares that can spot manipulation extremely easily and it all turned out to be not that much of an issue after all.
though now i wonder if i could possibly commit a crime while wearing makeup that makes my face seem ai-generated and then claim in court that the evidence is just a deepfake
That’s because bellingcat want to convince everyone AI image fakes are really common and hard to spot when actually they’re pretty easy to spot these days and tend to only appeal to the already converted since as soon as you show someone something they disagree with, they don’t just change their minds they actually immediately seek to debunk it because that’s the lighter mental load.
Bellingcat don’t actually need to convince you deepfakes are a real thing because deepfakes are not a real problem. Their true desire is the ability to denounce even photographic evidence of atrocities as fake when it’s convenient for them to straight up deny reality.
this is a very smart comment.
I remember a similar panic when photoshop started to become good and usable for mainstream machines, and there was a time when obviously real stuff would be claimed to be "photoshopped" just because people seemed to think that photoshopped images were utterly indistinguishable from real ones.
Then, rather quickly, people figured out that there are softwares that can spot manipulation extremely easily and it all turned out to be not that much of an issue after all.
though now i wonder if i could possibly commit a crime while wearing makeup that makes my face seem ai-generated and then claim in court that the evidence is just a deepfake