this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2024
415 points (90.9% liked)

Technology

58713 readers
4066 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemm.ee
fry@fry.gs
L3s@fry.gs
enu@lemmy.world
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
415
No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 month ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
166 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

interesting thought. we haven't had photos in history, and people didn't need them. also, we've been able to produce text deepfakes all throughout history (and people actually did that - a lot) and somehow, humanity still survived and made progress. maybe we should question our assumptions whether we really need a medium to communicate absolute truth.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 1 month ago

humanity still survived and made progress

Humanity never needed truth, for all of that. Only a good enough illusion.

It's just that, most of the times the illusions are not good enough and the truth comes out.