The future of fake news is real-time video manipulation

I agree. The biggest threat from this is not that people will use it to create false images, but the fact that its very possibility allows anyone to dismiss anything as having been doctored.

The second threat that I can foresee is that this will become another technological paywall opportunity, when only verified video can be truly trusted, there will have to be trusted gatekeepers, with some kind of DRM-like signing on media to prove authenticity…

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