Many are worried that the rise of realistic looking AI video tech will lead to fake videos of people doing bad things to smear their name.
But another worrying side effect of AI is how people will cry out “it’s AI” to genuine videos, just because they don’t want to believe it’s real – or want to convince others that it’s not real.
AI creates plausible deniability.
I see this battle over truth every single day in the comments on social media.
This was a few of the comments on a video about abuse in Romanian orphanages:
