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Absolute Units

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Things that you’re in awe at the size of.

Absolute Unit: an Animal, Public Figure or Object who is larger than one would normally expect.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So this feels like a genuine video, with ai generated videos getting better and better I really wonder how this kind of video will be received in the future? Skepticism? No matter how real a video is it can't be trusted to represent reality, how do we verify the veracity of a video? Geotagging and weather validation? Spacial videos? Multiple camera angles? I wonder if a post truth society simply won't trust anything

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I hate to say it but, I think we are going to find out. I think the paradigm has already shifted and the rules haven't yet been figured out. We're already living in a post truth era. People running around spouting lies and denying truth to the point of exhaustion.

You bring up an interesting point. Maybe we'll have to get to the point that if it's not in a physical book obviously copywritten pre 2017 no one will trust it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

We have certificate authorities in the digital world and notaries in the paper world. It’s not a huge leap to start an authenticity authority for videos, images and audio.

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