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    The End of Seeing is Believing: How Veo 3 Made Video Evidence Obsolete


    With the recent launch of Veo 3, we’ve officially entered a post-proof era.

    Every clip is now suspect. Video no longer settles debates. It exacerbates them. From fake political statements to fake grief, the implications are staggering.

    I wrote a deep-dive essay on what this means for journalism, justice, trust, and reality itself. It ends with one question:

    If video is no longer evidence, what do we trust now?

    Read it here: The End of Seeing is Believing

    Would love to hear your thoughts, critiques, or counterpoints.

    The End of Seeing is Believing: How Veo 3 Made Video Evidence Obsolete
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    1. ulfhelm on

      “This is what the dreamers wanted.”
      That’s one way of putting it … I’ve got a slightly different take…
      “This is what the psychopathic psychopomps wanted.”
      Signed,
      The Champion of Lost Dreams/Hellhound of Nightmares X3

    2. CoffeeSubstantial851 on

      Any post that begins with “With the” is going to be hot garbage.

    3. pomcomic on

      I am so sick of this whole AI craze for exactly this reason – it erodes trust in media to a worrying degree. I already find myself squinting at almost every image for hints about whether it’s been generated or not. It’s an exhausting browsing experience to say the least.

    4. Sir-Viette on

      In completely unrelated news, the Trump administration has announced they will release video that proves Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide.

    5. t0mkat on

      The fact this technology exists and that there are people getting paid handsomely for making it fills me with such disgust. Completely destroying our sense of reality for a paycheck. Nobody needs it and nothing good will come of it that won’t be dwarfed by the gigantic downsides.

      This technology needs to be banned right now. But since that won’t happen, it should at the very least be regulated to ensure that AI generated content can always be distinguished from real content in some way. If we still want a remotely usable internet in a few years then this is the obvious thing to do.

    6. KamikazeArchon on

      We had “video evidence” for a very brief window in human history. Humanity did fine before video. We’d do fine if it vanished.

      Further – video already didn’t settle debates. Video can be faked, edited, or simply used out of context, and that’s been true for the whole time that we’ve had it.

      Have you seen arguments on Reddit get settled by a video? Or did people just start arguing about whether the video is real, whether it was taken out of context, whether a person meant a thing in one way or another, etc?

    8. StillhasaWiiU on

      Real CCTV systems add time stamps, output encrypted formats that require specific software to open and the person giving them to the police can be charged with tampering if anything is falsified.

    9. Rin_Seven on

      Archeology of the future will be fact checking.
      Instead of mining through the dirt, we will be plowing through mountains of useless data.

      The ending of MGS2 did a spot on prediction of this…

    10. Heighte on

      I also had a deep conversation with ChatGPT (ironically) on it when Veo3 came out. I think we went a bit further than your article mostly on nudged truths, media provence, weaponized content, decentralized I formation circles and their drawbacks, hope it can help enhance your article 😉

    11. -Mr-Papaya on

      Objective, historical truth will be impossible to obtain. The only way to sift through the virtually infinite amount of information (and misinformation) would be… AI.

    12. raelianautopsy on

      So… what is good about this technology

      I get it when all the tech people go on and on about how technology is inevitable and we have to embrace it because we can’t stop what is coming, fine fine.

      But what’s the positive part?

      Like, who is this good for?

      Movie executives saving money? Is there literally anyone else this helps?

      I just don’t understand the incentive to uproot all of civilization… for what benefit exactly

    13. MyBrainIsNerf on

      We lived in a brief window where the internet gave us access to lots of information. That is simply no longer true. The task of sorting the true from false is getting too big and there are too many players interested in subverting your worldview.

      Interestingly enough, my students told me this during a recent lecture on AI I was giving. A room full of 17-20 year olds all agreed, with little drama, that you just could not trust anything online.

      Ironically, they will go back to where we were 30 years ago; they will identify legacy media they feel they can trust. Much of that will be AI generated but human edited and curated. They will have as much information as we had in the 90s.