Apr
24
2018
April 24, 2018
Doctored photos and videos can create false memories in people of things that never happened. And with the rise of artificial intelligence that can realistically map a person's face onto video of another person's body, humanity's hold on reality threatens to weaken even further.
“The potential for abuse is so severe,” Elizabeth Loftus, a distinguished professor of social ecology, who pioneered much of the research in false memory formation in the 1990s, told Vox. “Once you expose people to such a powerful visual presentation, how do they get it out of their minds?”