I’m saying it again: We can’t know what’s true anymore. Whenever something happens more than a few miles away, chances are high that you know nobody who was involved there physically, so there’s no reliable way of knowing what actually happened anymore.
I think we can only make reasonable choices about things that are close enough to ourselves; not about very far-away entities.
There are forensic fingerprints that match a video to an image sensor. Maybe they could be faked by a sophisticated actor but let’s be honest: the people watching these videos aren’t checking that closely.
I’m saying it again: We can’t know what’s true anymore. Whenever something happens more than a few miles away, chances are high that you know nobody who was involved there physically, so there’s no reliable way of knowing what actually happened anymore.
I think we can only make reasonable choices about things that are close enough to ourselves; not about very far-away entities.
I’m pretty sure that dancing frog was real. It has soul.
If you record a video on your phone, is there no Metadata to help verify its validity? Gotta be something we can do about this.
There are forensic fingerprints that match a video to an image sensor. Maybe they could be faked by a sophisticated actor but let’s be honest: the people watching these videos aren’t checking that closely.