Post by @benroyce@mastodon.social

2025-10-25 16:25 UTC

Now here is the problem Because #AI fakes have trained you about "too good to be true" scenes, you immediately distrust the picture above *That* is the problem Where before a picture was a picture, now, for everyone, there is the bias of distrust. We, buried in cynicism now, distrust first, and discard evidence *on the bias of 'too good to be true'* Here is another picture from the same scene by the same photographer (Thibault Camus, a photographer for The Associated Press): 3/x

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@benroyce@mastodon.social 2025-10-25 16:37

"someone else altered it" "the lighting is too perfect" "it's not #AI it's photoshop" etc maybe the picture is real? 🤷 To be honest, I don't care The picture is a prop for my point here: *It's not about whether or not the picture is real or fake, it's about how we distrust everything now* Pointless insipid endless arguments about real v fake... what is that replacing? On far more important issues in the world And that can be manipulated Meta-deception Deception, about deception 4/x

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@SnowyCA@social.vivaldi.net 2025-10-25 16:29

@benroyce@mastodon.social that looks real..the second photo that is, not the first

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@flipper@mastodonapp.uk 2025-10-25 20:26

@benroyce@mastodon.social I wrote an essay a short while ago (comparing Darwin and Nietzsche), a short essay but it took me a decent amount of effort, reading the Descent of Man and the Genealogy of Morals from real, unabridged, paper books, and thinking hard about how to structure my argument. Submitted it. I got a 1 star peer review with the single word of feedback: gpt. I mean: just fuck that guy. But yeah: we now distrust what we see and read. Perhaps I used too many em-dashes?

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@vbence@mastodon.social 2025-12-04 02:21

@benroyce@mastodon.social maybe there was a brief period with the Internet when the general public was exposed to raw sources of information. It is not meant to their eyes/ears. The analysis was always done by experts who worked at newspapers. - You do not believe because you saw a picture, you do because someone else did their homework with it.

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