Evan Prodromou
Do you think that when "L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat" first came out, there were a lot of breathless newspaper editorials about how you can't trust your eyes anymore, and guides on how to tell if you're actually about to be hit by a train?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Arriv%C3%A9e_d%27un_train_en_gare_de_La_Ciotat?wprov=sfla1
Evan Prodromou
I wonder if when the first films with sound came out, a Film Safety Board was proposed to make sure that for the good of society no movies could have human speech and realistic sound, and they'd instead only have wordless jaunty plinky piano scores?
Evan Prodromou
"Has film technology gone too far? 3d movies raise questions for experts, regulators"
Evan Prodromou
Troubadors singing, "Ye cafe of Anne of Clevef: do manipulated oil portraitf undermine our fenfe of reality? Expertf difagree"
Evan Prodromou
@TerryHancock yes, I was referring to that audience reaction.
I'm speculating as to whether overheated discourse on film technology followed, in the same way we have worry by pundits today about AI-created art.
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I believe that as a matter of history, there WERE stories about audiences being shocked and frightened by the realism, as if a real train were heading right for them.
But I have my doubts about the accuracy of these reports. There might've been just a smidge of sensational storytelling going on.
Evan Prodromou
Homeric rhapsodists forbidden from doing the voices or making thunder noises to prevent terrorized crowds from stampeding out of the acropolis theater in panicked flight from non-existent Trojans, Apollo
Evan Prodromou
People in media talk about AI-manipulated videos and images in the same flabbergasted way that the characters in "The Invention of Lying" react to learning that someone can say something untrue aloud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invention_of_Lying?wprov=sfla1
Evan Prodromou
Sorry to be the one to break this to you, but: the vast majority of media is not representative of actual events that really happened. Fiction exists.
Evan Prodromou
andrei!
@evan Catching your sarcasm - images have been for a long time one of the ways to distinguish fact from fiction.
We have just erased the trustworthiness of images as representing reality, at scale. And of video.
The main purpose of propaganda is to make it impossible to believe anything. This, nothing can be really proven, and any reality can be easily created by manipulating perception.
So yes, a bit of a big deal, at scale.
Kali Yuga indeed.
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