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Sora 2 makes convincing fake crime footage

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Re: Sora 2 makes convincing fake crime footage

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Suddenly there's a new generation of memes in the form of realistic video clips. We are accelerating to the point at which our whole media environments can be generated at will at trivial cost. It feels like the body politic is walking along an epistemic cliff.

Re: Sora 2 makes convincing fake crime footage

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post #3

Suddenly there's a new generation of memes in the form of realistic video clips. We are accelerating to the point at which our whole media environments can be generated at will at trivial cost. It feels like the body politic is walking along an epistemic cliff.

We live in an attention economy where beliefs are shaped by fleeting stimuli. Two decades of digital conditioning have habituated people to embrace the narratives they desire, regardless of contrary evidence. What becomes of our discourse, knowledge, and ideology in a world where evidence itself can be manufactured with zero friction and at scale?

Re: Sora 2 makes convincing fake crime footage

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Anyone skilled with AI, even just regular CGI, has been able to do this convincingly for years. What's changing is that it's becoming better, easier and more widely available. This is a good thing. It's significantly increasing every individual's potential for creative expression, and it's simultaneously making the general public aware that you can't just trust random media without knowing the source. Not before, and not now.

You can try regulating, banning and censoring models, adding silly invisible watermarks, require Gen AI content to be labelled as such, and live with a complete false sense of security. You'd be making it way easier to deceive people.

Re: Sora 2 makes convincing fake crime footage

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post #7

Anyone skilled with AI, even just regular CGI, has been able to do this convincingly for years. What's changing is that it's becoming better, easier and more widely available. This is a good thing. It's significantly increasing every individual's potential for creative expression, and it's simultaneously making the general public aware that you can't just trust random media without knowing the source. Not before, and…

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Re: Sora 2 makes convincing fake crime footage

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post #7

Anyone skilled with AI, even just regular CGI, has been able to do this convincingly for years. What's changing is that it's becoming better, easier and more widely available. This is a good thing. It's significantly increasing every individual's potential for creative expression, and it's simultaneously making the general public aware that you can't just trust random media without knowing the source. Not before, and…

Someone once told me that a person who doesn't believe anything will fall for everything. So if we don't know what to believe, do we all join our own conspiracy communities? Like on a grand scale?
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