Comment by einsteinx2
10 days ago
Yeah that's a good point. It's not so much that it was already happening before, but it's the shear quantity of it. People have been doctoring images for political gain for forever, but that at least took some photoshop skills. Now anyone can just pop out thousands of misinformation photos, articles, and even now videos in a few hours.
Exactly, yeah - the noise to signal ratio is shifted catastrophically because you can generate infinite amounts of bullshit in a flash. You don't have to trickily convince people that X is true instead of Y with some carefully planted forgery, you can just drown out the Y with a billion fake X.
It effectively kills the non-walled internet as an information repository.