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Re:Jeff Geerling – They stole my voice with AI by pjc50 on Sunday September 22, 2024 @05:03AM (#41615696)
> everyone will start doubting any videos they watch.

This kills the medium.

Just as ubiquitous scam calls have moved people away from phones, this moves people away from using media which cannot be trusted. Done enough this destroys reporting and therefore democracy. I wonder when the first nonexistent candidate will be elected.

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Re:Jeff Geerling – They stole my voice with AI by BurningFrog on Sunday September 22, 2024 @05:28AM (#41615823)
We've had Photoshop for decades, and I still see pictures everywhere.
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Re:Jeff Geerling – They stole my voice with AI by latexr on Sunday September 22, 2024 @05:38AM (#41615885)
Again this tired argument. Photoshop requires skill and time. AI generation takes a few seconds of typing some words. The scale is not comparable.
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Re:Jeff Geerling – They stole my voice with AI by wpm on Sunday September 22, 2024 @10:34AM (#41617363)
And let’s not pretend image generation AI isn’t already in a state where it can pump out convincing slop. Facebook is full of it.
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Re:Jeff Geerling – They stole my voice with AI by Eisenstein on Sunday September 22, 2024 @05:14AM (#41615749)
It is inevitable at this point that video as 'proof' will be killed. That we cannot do reporting and it destroying democracy is a little too much 'sky is falling'. Democracy existed before video.
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Re:Jeff Geerling – They stole my voice with AI by GreenWatermelon on Sunday September 22, 2024 @08:36AM (#41616607)
This sounds like saying Text, as a medium, is already destroyed. But as we can see, despite thousands of years of fraud potential, we still use text a medium. We're back to needing witnesses and corroborating evidence.
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Re:Jeff Geerling – They stole my voice with AI by vasco on Sunday September 22, 2024 @09:22AM (#41616888)
I'm not sure I can take seriously arguments of "killing democracy", that undermines whatever point you're making in the same way people that worry about crime and shout "think of the children" or immediately go to "stopping terrorism". Just make your point without hyperbole.
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Re:Jeff Geerling – They stole my voice with AI by barryrandall on Monday September 23, 2024 @12:45PM (#41627985)
The market for content that reassures people their preexisting views are right and valid is huge, evergreen, and held to the lowest possible standard.
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