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> it will just make all confidence in video evidence disappear

You don't see a problem with that?

Why stop there, why have confidence in anything any longer? Earth is flat, earth is round? Who knows, both are likely.

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Video material is going to lose its value, like many other kinds of evidence before. Just think about your own judgement about pictures nowadays and you can probably apply it to videos in 10-20 years. Neither of them will lose all of their value as evidence, but they will be adjusted as technology is going forward.

A lot of people are going to fall for the con before we get to that point, unfortunately.

In the long run I think you're correct, but just looking at how poorly the Boomers and even Gen Xers are adjusting to modern forms of media, I'd say it's safe to assume it will take a generation or even two before media literacy with regards to video is properly adjusted among the general public, at which point, who knows what kind of tech will be available?

I'd like to think younger people would be able to verify sources or discern misinformation, but I don't have much hope. A scroll through /r/all on reddit will show you millennial and gen Z audiences getting whipped up into a frenzy with fake or out-of-context tweets or posts all the time.

Why do you think deep fakes would be a problem? It just makes it cheap.

Any serius actor can make a video of someone doing something that might look real since years.

What? No that's horrible, the problem is obvious.

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