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Trusted Filters Series
All images are just a fragment of the reality they pretend to report. A photograph is only an instant in time cut-off from the context of the moment before and after or around the subject. Video, although temporal, only looks in the direction the camera is pointing.
Yet so many people intrinsically trust these images as reality. They trust that, even imperfectly, the image represents reality.
That is about to change.
With the growth of AI created images and video, what can appear to be a perfectly legitimate photograph of an actual event or even a video seeming to show the events might be complete fantasy. Right now we can usually tell the difference, but this will not last. Soon AI generated “reality” will be indistinguishable from live recorded reality making us suspicious of everything we see that did not happen directly in front of us.
How can we exist in a reality that can be edited and recreated? How can we learn to be more skeptical of the images we are constantly being fed without losing all trust in recorded images? Will we be able to adapt to this new reality?