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[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (12 children)

Stalin famously ordered people he had killed erased from photos.

This checks out, here's an article about it: https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-retouching

So why are you downvoted? Maybe because your view is too optimistic? And the problem isn't only with autocratic regimes. But much more general.
How do we validate anything, when everything can be easily faked?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

“Photoshopping” something bad existed for a long time at this point.AI generated images doesn’t really change anything other then the entire photo being fake instead of just a small section.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It changes a lot. Good Photoshopping skills would not create the images as shown in the article.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah some of these would be like 100 layer creations if someone was doing it themselves in photoshop -- It would take a professional or near-professional level of skills.

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