The once-prophesized future where cheap, AI-generated trash content floods out the hard work of real humans is already here, and is already taking over Facebook.
@tal@BlackEco Except, as the article notes, he *has* taken videos of his process and shared in-progress photos. The problem is not that there is no way to prove the veracity of a photo - it’s that it’s difficult to prove the converse for fakes, and most people are woefully unprepared for that reality. The average person has not fully internalized that almost any image they see online could be entirely fictional, and it’s only going to get harder to tell.
@tal @BlackEco Except, as the article notes, he *has* taken videos of his process and shared in-progress photos. The problem is not that there is no way to prove the veracity of a photo - it’s that it’s difficult to prove the converse for fakes, and most people are woefully unprepared for that reality. The average person has not fully internalized that almost any image they see online could be entirely fictional, and it’s only going to get harder to tell.