We’ve officially hit the point where video evidence means nothing in court or online. If it’s not cryptographically signed at the source, it’s just fan fiction
9-11GaveMe5G on
Calling it now: instant camera will make a comeback. It is a billion times more difficult to believably alter a polaroid than a digital photo now. Instant film has other bits inside that can help indicate tampering.
iunoyou on
I super love watching the concepts of objective truth and a shared baseline reality disintegrate in real time, big fan of the future.
PJBonoVox on
I like how Zuckerberg is the thumbnail. He already looks CG anyway.
Candid_Koala_3602 on
Just assume everything is fake
MikeInPajamas on
When people can no longer believe their own lying eyes, and when there are no longer objective, verifiable truths, then the only way to avoid chaos and anarchy will be for the people to blindly follow whatever the government says is true.
Unless you were there to personally witness an event, there’ll be no photo, video, or sound recording… no 3rd party news report or 2nd hand recollection, that will be sufficiently trustworthy so as to be believed… And similarly nobody that does not personally know you will be able to believe you, being unable to separate your story from the untrue noise.
The government will be, must be, the protector of the people by providing the one central truth that, by mandate, must be believed, and all who don’t will be subversives and punished.
We are teetering right on the edge of 1984, and at this point our descent into it is inevitable.
This is doubleplus ungood.
NoLove_NoHope on
Maybe if we start making deepfakes of the tech bros, Trump, Elon, other billionaires etc. but make them do weird and detrimental things in them.
If we must suffer, then so much they.
Like when twitter started allowing anyone to buy a verified tick, and some user made a profile that looked very similar to Eli Lily’s, said something about diabetes drugs being free which then trashed their stock price.
phenix_igloo on
It’s also kind of a blessing, with every video and audio being deniable we are getting some privacy back.
Overman365 on
This sub has become a dystopian melodrama: ritualized lamentation over the loss of digital autonomy that never really existed.
Outrage has become the product. As long as there’s more to consume, people will keep feeding long after the appetite is gone.
Sooowasthinking on
I’m off the internet in 2026 as far as social media and news go.Just picked up a ps5 pro so I’m out.Ive decided from now on I’m calling BS on everything
roamingandy on
Imho, the tech world generally hates cryptocurrency because of all the scams but we are going to need to see approved blockchains built into cameras and recording devices so everyone can see where and when something was recorded, and by who. I can’t see any other option for determining what is reality in the future.
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We’ve officially hit the point where video evidence means nothing in court or online. If it’s not cryptographically signed at the source, it’s just fan fiction
Calling it now: instant camera will make a comeback. It is a billion times more difficult to believably alter a polaroid than a digital photo now. Instant film has other bits inside that can help indicate tampering.
I super love watching the concepts of objective truth and a shared baseline reality disintegrate in real time, big fan of the future.
I like how Zuckerberg is the thumbnail. He already looks CG anyway.
Just assume everything is fake
When people can no longer believe their own lying eyes, and when there are no longer objective, verifiable truths, then the only way to avoid chaos and anarchy will be for the people to blindly follow whatever the government says is true.
Unless you were there to personally witness an event, there’ll be no photo, video, or sound recording… no 3rd party news report or 2nd hand recollection, that will be sufficiently trustworthy so as to be believed… And similarly nobody that does not personally know you will be able to believe you, being unable to separate your story from the untrue noise.
The government will be, must be, the protector of the people by providing the one central truth that, by mandate, must be believed, and all who don’t will be subversives and punished.
We are teetering right on the edge of 1984, and at this point our descent into it is inevitable.
This is doubleplus ungood.
Maybe if we start making deepfakes of the tech bros, Trump, Elon, other billionaires etc. but make them do weird and detrimental things in them.
If we must suffer, then so much they.
Like when twitter started allowing anyone to buy a verified tick, and some user made a profile that looked very similar to Eli Lily’s, said something about diabetes drugs being free which then trashed their stock price.
It’s also kind of a blessing, with every video and audio being deniable we are getting some privacy back.
This sub has become a dystopian melodrama: ritualized lamentation over the loss of digital autonomy that never really existed.
Outrage has become the product. As long as there’s more to consume, people will keep feeding long after the appetite is gone.
I’m off the internet in 2026 as far as social media and news go.Just picked up a ps5 pro so I’m out.Ive decided from now on I’m calling BS on everything
Imho, the tech world generally hates cryptocurrency because of all the scams but we are going to need to see approved blockchains built into cameras and recording devices so everyone can see where and when something was recorded, and by who. I can’t see any other option for determining what is reality in the future.