Real or Fake? AI Is Making It Very Hard to Know, by Will Knight.
The ability to fake evidence with increasing plausibility will like give more of us permission to take greater risks online.
As fakery becomes more believable and easier to do, “That wasn’t me (in some socially compromising photo) - someone hacked me!” will become more believable.
Politicians and other public figures have been using this excuse for years already of course; even before technology got anywhere near as good as it is today.
It'll be interesting to see where this will go.
