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No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Davidjjdj@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

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...