No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.

@jeffw@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.

@kernelle@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

As the cat and mouse game continues, we ask ourselves, is water still wet?

@sorghum@sh.itjust.works · 4 months ago

Just wait, image manipulation will happen at image creation and there will be no “original”. Proving an image is unmanipulated will be a landmark legal precedent and set the standard for being able to introduce photographic evidence. It is already a problem for audio recordings and will be eventually for video.