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Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image

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263 points josephcsible | 2 comments | 07 Dec 25 00:37 UTC | HN request time: 3.803s | source
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osigurdson ◴[07 Dec 25 03:21 UTC] No.46178878[source]▶
From 1950 - 2005(ish) there were a small number of sources due to the enormous moat required to become a broadcaster. From 2005 to 2021, you could mostly trust video as the costs of casual fakery were prohibitive. Now that the cost to produce fake videos are near zero, I suspect we will return to a much smaller number of sources (though not as small as in the pre YouTube era).
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1. BobbyTables2 ◴[07 Dec 25 06:37 UTC] No.46179662[source]▶
Some of the “smaller sources” also distorted facts.

We might even have fewer than before - between Internet commentators and loss of confidence from AI, real journalism may not be as highly valued as it was before the Internet…

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2. osigurdson ◴[07 Dec 25 18:06 UTC] No.46183650[source]▶
It will entirely be about trust. I don't think fakery is worth it for any company with > $1B market cap as trust is such a valuable commodity. It isn't like we are just going to have a single state broadcaster or something like that (at least, I hope not). However it is going to favour larger / more established sources which is unfortunate as well.