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That appears to have already happened, no AI required.
The trust in video evidence certainly can be much lower than it is now.
That's the ultimate purpose of disinformation -- it's not to make you believe false things, it's to make you believe nothing.
So yes, AI fakery will contribute to that phenomenon on behalf of numerous bad actors, but it was always going to happen anyway. You don't need Hinton and Sutskever on your side if you have Aisles and Murdoch.
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The trust in video evidence certainly can be much lower than it is now.
It's more an issue of indifference than trust. For instance, you can show Trump supporters any number of legitimate videos that depict Trump and his associates saying, doing, and promising all kinds of outrageous, offensive, and destructive things, and they won't care in the slightest. It's not that they don't trust the video, it's that they've been programmed not to care. The leader cannot fail. That's the ultimate…
That's like saying: "Yes, crime might increase, but we will always have crime anyway." What will happen anyway is irrelevant precisely because it happens anyway. What's relevant is the expected increase in media distrust once everything might be a fake.
Curious what's the actual cost for each edit? Will this infra always be reliable?
I was able to clone the repo and run it locally, even on a Windows machine, with only minimal Python dependency grief. Takes about a minute to create or edit an image on a 4090. It's pretty impressive so far. Image quality isn't mind-blowing, but the multi-modal aspects are almost disturbingly powerful. Not a lot of guardrails, either.