Re: What do you believe?
^ This, this and this.
I know everyone focusses on the technology here, but I'm pretty sure that biology is really the more interesting bit - I suspect that our monkey brains really are programmed to exactly "believe what we see with our own eyes", and pretty much any immediately, even half-way, convincing video is going to be believed by a huge proportion of the population.
How many people are going to bother verifying that video is real if it confirms their own beliefs or prejudices, and just how many times around the world will the lies/propaganda get before the truth gets it socks on?
So, despite any technological solution to authenticate any imagery as real, there is a hell of a lot of scope for this to be used in disinformation campaigns for any reason that really will have significant effects on public(or other target group's) opinion.
That, for me, is worrying.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
