I think we're living through the last years where seeing a video still means anything

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This genuinely freaks me out more than most AI discussions.

For basically my entire life, a photo or especially a video was at least some kind of evidence that something happened. Sure, Photoshop existed and videos could be edited, but convincingly faking an entire random video still took actual effort.

That's disappearing incredibly fast.

We're getting to a point where someone can show you footage of a politician saying something, a war happening, a celebrity doing something insane or just a random person committing a crime and "I literally watched the video" won't necessarily mean anything.

And the scary part isn't just believing fake things.

It's that real things can be dismissed as fake too.

Once everyone knows anything can be generated, actual footage loses some of its power as evidence.

I don't think we've really processed how fucking weird the internet is going to become when seeing is no longer believing.