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Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World (gizmodo.com)
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[–] 33 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

Expect much more of this and soon enough it will be impossible to distinguish between Real and fake videos

We can fix a little with digitally.sigbed videos to at least show that a video came from a verified source but that still won't fix the issue with leaked videos. Basically, leaked videos and open mike videos / audio clips are over, we can't ever trust them anymore

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I think the article really makes the point that it doesn't matter. The videos can LITERALLY have a watermark on them from the AI software, and people just dgaf. The battle is lost before it begins.

    As with things like quotes and claims that could always be fake, it's back to the old journalistic practices of verifying sources with a second source. But that means being ignorant of things that were not being investigated by journalists, which creates a different filter bubble.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    it’s back to the old journalistic practices of verifying sources with a second source.

    that has as a necessary pre-requirement that people are actually interested enough in an objective truth that they're willing to pay some journalist to do the research.

    is that really the case anymore? I can see it being useful in the 20th century when people were interested in new economic developments and stuff

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Journalists don't verify anything these days, because their bosses are focused on being the first to publish. Doesn't matter if it's right or wrong, the article only exists to get the advertising to load.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    With the way things spread on social media from user generated content it would be hard to get that done I'm sure. Like the video almost everyone saw of Charlie, the video was indeed real but the spread was so beyond control that ot broke almost every filter algorithm on social media. I can't imagine how much "suppression" talk would be mentioned if we had digitally sign the source even though it would be totally valid. [Viral > Truth]

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