People on FB and Reddit are just upvoting Twitter-screenshot-style pictures and screenshots of headlines with no sources. That takes about 2 seconds to create. Just choose-your-own-caption with an accompanying image.
The fear of fake videos is overblown. What amounts to a screenshot of a headline can get 30k upvotes and comments on Reddit without anyone asking for a source. That tendency is what worries me, not the medium.
The fake screenshots and the fake videos are both troublesome. How do we know what’s true and what isn’t? How many false facts do you believe?
I can imagine a world where false tweets/videos/headlines are generated specifically for you to keep engagement levels high. The outcome would be not only do we not know the truth, but no one can agree on the truth. It’s something that currently exists in our society, but technology can make the split bigger.
> People on FB and Reddit are just upvoting Twitter-screenshot-style pictures and screenshots of headlines with no sources [..]
Those are much less sophisticated than the sorts of stuff this enables.
Pointing out a qualitative similarity does not mean quantitative differences don't exist, and quantitative differences sometimes create qualitative differences as emergent properties on a higher level, e.g. that of society. Denying this truth (and downvoting me for saying so) is idiotic.
