• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    “Photoshopping” something bad existed for a long time at this point.AI generated images doesn’t really change anything other then the entire photo being fake instead of just a small section.

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      7 months ago

      I’d disagree. It takes, now, zero know-how to convincingly create a false image. And it takes zero work. So where one photo would take one person a decent amount of time to convincingly pull off, now one person can create 100 images or more in that time, each one a potential time bomb that will go off when it starts getting passed around as evidence of something. And there are uncountable numbers of bad actors on the internet trying to cause a ruckus. This just increased their chances of succeeding at least 100-fold, and opened the access to many, many others who might just do it accidentally, for a joke, or who always wanted to create waves but didn’t have the photoshop skills necessary.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 months ago

      It changes a lot. Good Photoshopping skills would not create the images as shown in the article.

      • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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        7 months ago

        Yeah some of these would be like 100 layer creations if someone was doing it themselves in photoshop – It would take a professional or near-professional level of skills.

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      7 months ago

      The easy and speed with which AI created photos, of a quality most photoshoppers could only dream, can be created of does very much change everything.