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The human brain is very skilled at recognizing faces, it's the result of evolution. While deepfake are high quality, I think most people can notice that it's not entirely authentic. A deepfake cannot really account for the shape of the skull, face mimics, face muscles, how the head and jaw move, etc, there are many things that the human brain works on to identify a face. I'm not really sure that deepfakes measure and…

Actors with similar skull shapes might be used for more convincing deep fakes.

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Before anyone is panicking, please remind yourself that whatever medium was used by humans as a form of communication in the last few thousand years, was also used for fakes. You only need a half-decent voice actor to pretend you are someone else on the phone. Fake photographs are as old as photography. Even the probably most immediate form of interpersonal communication, seeing another person, can be faked, which is…

In the past, you needed to put effort to fake things. Of course, people still exist that believe the moonlanding videos were faked, but their hypothesis hinges on the government spending extraordinary amounts of money to produce the fake. Deepfakes are deeply troubling, because anyone with a computer (a requirement that's getting optional as well quite fast) can fake any video almost instantly. Consider just one sini…

>Of course, people still exist that believe the moonlanding videos were faked, but their hypothesis hinges on the government spending extraordinary amounts of money to produce the fake.

Are you truly suggesting here that the government would never make a fake video about a moon landing because it would cost too much to make this video?? So instead they sent humans to the moon and brought them back safely to earth because that's all their budget would allow?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am observing increasing number of people is now seriously believe in "Moon Hoax". Definitely more than back in 70-80th. Why is that? Generation of YouTube? Deliberate propaganda?

Don't forget the Flat Earth movement. I don't think anything about that is "deliberate propaganda". It's just nutjobs gathering and gatherings of nutjobs creating more nutjobs. It's much easier these days with "social" media.

>I don't think anything about that is "deliberate propaganda".

Based on what? "Flat earth" is deliberate psy-op propaganda to discredit anyone talking about "conspiracies". You're concerned about the health effects of fluoride in the water supply? You're not sure the "facts" about 9/11 quite add up? You must also think the Earth is flat. Ergo, you are a complete idiot who cannot be trusted. QED.

That's how "flat earth" works in my opinion. People are scared to use the word "conspiracy" nowadays, as if "conspiracies" do not exist. It's a result of government-directed mainstream media propaganda to discredit dissenting opinion and/or general inquiry.

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