• cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
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    4 months ago

    Not as easy and accessible as now.

    Before, I don’t even know how to erase a pimple on my selfies. Now I can easily generate picture of a photorealistic cat girl riding a bike naked on Time square that could fool any elders in my neighborhood.

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      4 months ago

      Accessibility makes it the opposite of convincing.

      And a skillfully modified photo is going to convince just about anyone.

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        4 months ago

        There are some really subtle details experts can look at to detect Photoshop work, such as patterns in the JPEG artifacts than can indicate a photo was reocmpressed multiple times in some areas but not others.