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WTF? Why nothing like this ever happened during Photoshop times? Are people just dumber now?
Because the venn diagram of “people who would maliciously do something like this” and “people with good enough photoshop skills to make it look realistic” were nearly two separate circles. AI has added a third “people with access to AI image generators” circle, and it has a LOT of overlap with the second group simply because it is so large.
Really? I remember tons of nicely photoshoped pictures on Snopes. There was a lot of trolling by people with skills going on.
Those remained on email chains. Unlike social media of today where anyone can generate any image and send it to millions of gullible people in a second.
Email chains? You're thinking about some early internet 40 years ago. Twitter has 20 years, Instragram 15. People were sharing fake images on social media long before AI. I just can't imagine anyone responsible making decisions like stopping trains based on a single image on the internet. You know how easy would it be to post an image of a forest fire on Twitter? You don't even have to fake it, simply take an image from some other fire. You make decisions like that based on credible calls, not something you saw online.
Even then it feels like there were a lot less gullible people online 10 years back compared to today.
That was the first thing I've said. People are just dumber now.
It doesn’t require skill anymore. AI has enabled children with the ability to pretend they have a skill, and to use it to fool people for fun.
The thing is you actually need some skill to do it in Photoshop, but now every dumb fuck who knows how to read can do shit like this.
So? People with skill don't troll? Clearly the dumb person here is the one who believed the fake. What does someone else's skill has to do with it?
These are more realistic and far far easier to make.