jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoNo one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.www.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square169fedilinkarrow-up1453arrow-down143cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@beehaw.orgghazi@lemmy.blahaj.zonecollapse@slrpnk.nettechnology@lemmit.online
arrow-up1410arrow-down1external-linkNo one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.www.theverge.comjeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square169fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@beehaw.orgghazi@lemmy.blahaj.zonecollapse@slrpnk.nettechnology@lemmit.online
minus-squareendofline@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down2·4 months agoPhotography manipulation existed almost since the invention of photography. It was only much harder see the famous photo edition https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-retouching
minus-squareDavidjjdj@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 months agoGreat point. But tools that make it so a 10 year old can manipulate photos even better than your example in several minutes, are in fact fairly new. Hell they can generate photos that fool 70% of people on Facebook, though now that I say that, maybe that bar isn’t too high…
Photography manipulation existed almost since the invention of photography. It was only much harder see the famous photo edition https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-retouching
Great point. But tools that make it so a 10 year old can manipulate photos even better than your example in several minutes, are in fact fairly new.
Hell they can generate photos that fool 70% of people on Facebook, though now that I say that, maybe that bar isn’t too high…