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Defiant_Station_5895 t1_isxcpdo wrote

If we get to the point where we can’t trust any information on the internet, trust that images and videos are genuine, where does that leave society? If this can’t be controlled, are we heading for a dark place where all we can believe is what we can actually see. Is this a major impending crisis?

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BinyaminDelta t1_it9ek6z wrote

Wait, you trust information and images on the Internet CURRENTLY?

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Defiant_Station_5895 t1_itano3t wrote

I get your point and I did think that as I am writing this. But My trust hasn’t broken down to the point where I disconnect from the internet entirely. I can watch the news and be fairly confident those people said what they said and this is not a computer generated Joe Biden saying America is at war with NKorea.

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turnip_burrito t1_iuhipf4 wrote

To remain a functional society, we'll have to trust centralized news outlets more than social media sources, or have computer programs which validate images/videos based on either metadata or statistical noise. Maybe even a suite of these programs and several centralized news outlets verifying. Or maybe some form of content delivery that encrypts legitimate videos at the time of recording so that when we recieve a video encrypted in this way, we know it's unaltered? I'm tired so i haven't thought this through.

Anyway, when video synthesis is perfected, we will need to treat video and images exactly like we do text now. Goodbye to the days of automatically trusting all video as authentic unfortunately. :(

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