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Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2024
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In the thumbnail is the Tiananmen Square Tank Man.
Are you claiming a globally televised event which lead to a complete breakdown of trade relations across the world in the 90s, didn't happen?
No, they're saying it would be really easy now to create a fake image that would have in the past had that level of impact.
Present it
Fair, I should have said "for a bad actor", of which I am not. I haven't experience with the tools they'd use.