Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoAI is creating fake historical photos, and that's a problemmarinaamaral.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down11
arrow-up111arrow-down1external-linkAI is creating fake historical photos, and that's a problemmarinaamaral.substack.comFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square27fedilink
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months ago And trust me, these generated images are getting scarily good. I have to agree, I would not be able to spot a single one of them as fake. They look really convincingly authentic IMO.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoStalin famously ordered people he had killed erased from photos. Imagine what current and future autocratic regimes will be able to achieve when they want to rewrite their histories.
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-27 months ago Stalin famously ordered people he had killed erased from photos. This checks out, here’s an article about it: https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-retouching So why are you downvoted? Maybe because your view is too optimistic? And the problem isn’t only with autocratic regimes. But much more general. How do we validate anything, when everything can be easily faked?
I have to agree, I would not be able to spot a single one of them as fake. They look really convincingly authentic IMO.
Stalin famously ordered people he had killed erased from photos.
Imagine what current and future autocratic regimes will be able to achieve when they want to rewrite their histories.
This checks out, here’s an article about it: https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-retouching
So why are you downvoted? Maybe because your view is too optimistic? And the problem isn’t only with autocratic regimes. But much more general.
How do we validate anything, when everything can be easily faked?