... into existence? The technology to create a realistic war scene or explosion in a market or a tumor on somone's pecker exists today. There's gonna
be someone somewhere who will take advantage and create entirely fabricated news footage.
And once that ability becomes common, how will we know the difference? Will the need for newsfootage analysis become a booming industry, where the contents of all recorded news stories must be probed for fabrication? And what if special effects tech becomes so good that it becomes impossible to tell the fake from the real thing? Will we live lives manipulated by artificial news created according to what an exclusive cabal determines our society needs to experience? Or will we be wise to the level of deceit and never trust what we're told? How will we then know what is really happening in the world?
And once that ability becomes common, how will we know the difference? Will the need for newsfootage analysis become a booming industry, where the contents of all recorded news stories must be probed for fabrication? And what if special effects tech becomes so good that it becomes impossible to tell the fake from the real thing? Will we live lives manipulated by artificial news created according to what an exclusive cabal determines our society needs to experience? Or will we be wise to the level of deceit and never trust what we're told? How will we then know what is really happening in the world?
