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AI is creating fake historical photos, and that's a problem
(marinaamaral.substack.com)
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So this is hardly an AI-specific issue. It's always been something to be on guard for. As others in this thread have pointed out, Stalin was airbrushing out political rivals from photos back in the 30s. Heck damnatio memoriae goes back as far as history itself does. Ancient Pharoahs would have the names of their predecessors chiseled off of monuments so they could "claim" them as their own work.
I mean, the ability to churn out maybe amounts of these fake photos with no effort on the part of the user, causing them to pollute real Internet searches (also now "augmented" by MLB themselves) is definitely AI specific.
Also, colorizing photos is not the same thing as making fake ones.
The internet has never been a reliable source of information. The only thing that changes is how safe you feel about it. When the internet first began it was mysterious and scary, then at some point people felt safe, now we go back to scary.
People should not feel safe on the internet. It is inherently unsafe.
Is there a non zero chance Nero was slandered by political opponents? Remember reading that on one of those old "secret history" type books.
Yes. In general most of what we think we know about the emperors in terms of anecdotes are suspect relative to positive or negative biases in sources.
It'd be kind of like history fans in 4024 talking about George Washington and cherry trees.