we will all lose something of ourselves

This is all about to flip — the default assumption about a photo is about to become that it’s faked, because creating realistic and believable fake photos is now trivial to do. We are not prepared for what happens after.

Source: No one’s ready for this – The Verge

Considering the current state of reading comprehension and media literacy in the United States the situation is going to become horrible extremely quickly.

Take in point— conservative media blowing up over “Haitian immigrants eating pets“, which was from the get-go a fake issue, created by Springfield neo-nazis as blood libel. We were already familiar with this kind of racial perception from previous situations so I was already disbelieving of it. But other people on social media outside the US truly believed it. Ourselves we corrected a couple people. One of them blocked us for it

But in both these cases there were no fake pictures to complicate the issue. At some point a fake picture is going to blow up and it’s going to be almost impossible to dispel the issue unless there’s video of the specific situation. But then genAI is going to then start faking video and we’ll be in the same situation.

Humanity will lose the ability to remember things as they truly were, choosing instead to remember things how they wished they were.