Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio...
by JKCalhoun on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:28PM
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> it will just make all confidence in video evidence disappear
You don't see a problem with that?
Why stop there, why have confidence in anything any longer? Earth is flat, earth is round? Who knows, both are likely.
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio...
by antibuddy on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:08PM
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Video material is going to lose its value, like many other kinds of evidence before. Just think about your own judgement about pictures nowadays and you can probably apply it to videos in 10-20 years. Neither of them will lose all of their value as evidence, but they will be adjusted as technology is going forward.
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio...
by amanaplanacanal on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:20PM
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A lot of people are going to fall for the con before we get to that point, unfortunately.
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio...
by entropicdrifter on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:51PM
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In the long run I think you're correct, but just looking at how poorly the Boomers and even Gen Xers are adjusting to modern forms of media, I'd say it's safe to assume it will take a generation or even two before media literacy with regards to video is properly adjusted among the general public, at which point, who knows what kind of tech will be available?
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio...
by dashundchen on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:00PM
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I'd like to think younger people would be able to verify sources or discern misinformation, but I don't have much hope. A scroll through /r/all on reddit will show you millennial and gen Z audiences getting whipped up into a frenzy with fake or out-of-context tweets or posts all the time.
People will trust some fake videos until they see stunningly realistic videos of themselves hanging out with Hitler, or whatever.
Later we will have some video devices that use some kind of encryption and network connectivity to validate frames of video faster than they could be post-processed, creating trustworthy video. However, crazy people will just say the organizations running the validation are illegitimate.