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So. 21% of american adults are functionally illiterate. More than half of americans don’t read above a sixth grade level. And now the government (AND the private sector) has access to a Video Evidence Faker. If Trump doesn’t kill America, this will.
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Google’s Veo 3 Can Make Deepfakes of Riots, Election Fraud, Conflict

time.com

The release of Veo 3 really does slap a big obligation on Google/Meta/Twitter/Reddit to maintain their timestamps because pretty much anything posted online after 3 days ago is going to be indistinguishable from the incoming AI flood
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Anonymous 15w

The one saving grace here is that each Veo generation comes with an invisible Google watermark, but you have to get deep in the metadata to figure that out and find that watermark for any one piece of media you see

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Anonymous 15w

off topic but the ads on the time website are so fucking annoying, what do you mean I have to watch a full 30 second ad before watching a 7 second clip

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 15w

isn’t it so fucking depressing that credible news outlets have to resort to AdSpam in order to keep themselves funded because it’s so much more appealing to consume confirmation bias distilled in the form of an algorithm

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