Seeing is believing?

I am sort of freaked out at the moment. These last days we’ve been watching the new Netfix animated series ‘Love, Death & Robots’, which I don’t find quite worthy of all the hype, but…
Some of the episodes are traditional animation, some are so modern, as far as technology goes, it’s hard to tell it’s not real actors. Take a look at this picture from episode 7, the one that freaked me out to the point I wasn’t able to focus on the plot anymore.

Cute blonde, isn’t it? Not real…

Obviously, for the most part you can tell it’s animation, but what will happen in a few years time? The technology exists and will continue to improve until computers will create perfect replicas of human actors. Of humans, in general. I’m already bothered by the whole android business and I’ve written before about the dangers of robots entering the workforce. The feeling I was left with tonight is beyond the problems of the workforce, its’ society in general and the fact we might have in our midst robots that are hardly distinguishable from real people.
Given that these days Hollywood is a madhouse of loony lefties I wouldn’t mind having them replaced by robots, but it’s about all of us.

Another thing I find worrying is that it won’t be long until it will be technically possible to create fake videos using replicas of real people. Fakes which, to the untrained eye, would be impossible to spot.
Take for instance the last US presidential campaign and the many lies about Donald Trump. Like the so-called ‘Golden Shower’ story. How much more effective such a lie would be if you had video ‘proof’ to back it up? Create a video allegedly showing Trump with a prostitute in a Moscow hotel and within the hour that movie would get viral. Who wouldn’t want to click on that and see with their own eyes? Well, Trump could issue a denial, threaten to sue, call for a technical expertise, whatever, most of those who’d have seen it would remain under the firm belief it was real.
Seeing is believing, right?
Or the Julian Assange story. The smear campaign is in full swing and I can think of a number of institutions that would be quite happy to release, discreetly, some videos showing Assange engaged in whatever depravity they could think of. Already, a great number of people out there believe in whatever sick lies they’re fed. Give them some video proof and they’d be so convinced Assange is a monster not even God himself could possibly sway them.
We already have problems with all sorts of fake news, but with this level of technological advancement we’re fast approaching an age when we won’t be able to believe anything. Most of us will lack both the equipment and the knowledge to be able to tell apart fact from fake.

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