• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    And trust me, these generated images are getting scarily good.

    I have to agree, I would not be able to spot a single one of them as fake. They look really convincingly authentic IMO.

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      11 months ago

      Stalin famously ordered people he had killed erased from photos.

      Imagine what current and future autocratic regimes will be able to achieve when they want to rewrite their histories.

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          11 months ago

          Probably just because some people really like Stalin, and have become convinced his accounts are the truthful ones and everyone else lies about him.

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            11 months ago

            That’s a scary thought!! But all kinds of crazy exist, and I mean people have to be literally crazy to want to live under a regime like Stalin made.

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          11 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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            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.

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            11 months ago

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

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              11 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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            11 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.

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        10 months ago

        Honestly, it looks like the picture on the left is fake, like the guy was inserted into it. Just look at his outline, compared with the rest of the background.

        (I’m no Stalin fan, just commenting on the picture itself.)