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Comment by jacquesm | Hacker News Reader

The real world version of 'Looker' isn't all that far away.

I really, really wish I had possessed the fortitude to finish the sci-fi novel I started writing a few decades ago. The backdrop was post Reality Crisis, which occurred after faking pretty much anything became simple and available to the masses. Huge waves of paranoia had overtaken distressingly large portions of the population, who managed to uncover actual conspiracies in their digging for what truth really was, swaths of people had been convicted on falsified evidence, major elections were overturned, and so on. Nobody knew what to believe any longer.

Oh that sounds interesting. But soon you'll be able to do the same thing by making a documentary... and likely it will be far wilder than your imagination ever foresaw.

My only hope in all this mess is that it pushes us back towards local communities.

That's what I come up with when I try to think of what the best-case result of all this will be. I sincerely hope that's what will happen (or something better that I haven't thought of).

What I think is more likely, though, is it will result in a serious increase in the rate of people withdrawing from society and community altogether.

Maybe you should ask ChatGPT to write it for you, section by section, chapter by chapter, until it's done.

Then publish it, with Art Imitating Life as the title.

(Cite me in your dedications, pls :-)

We seem to be barrelling straight into implementing most of the fictional dystopias that people have thought up.

You're broke and alone and the air is poison but at least the fake Scarlett Johanssons are cheap.

Was that the recent Black mirror episode with Salma Hayek? That one was fantastic

E: no it wasn't, I was thinking of "Joan is Awful"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/

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