I create fake videos. Here’s why people believe even the obvious ones

Fast Company ^ | Sept 14, 2019 | CHRISTYE SISSON

[Leaning Right]

Lots of people—including Congress—are worried about fake videos and imagery distorting the truth, purporting to show people saying and doing things they never said or did.

I’m part of a larger U.S. government project that is working on developing ways to detect images and videos that have been manipulated. My team’s work, though, is to play the role of the bad guy. We develop increasingly devious, and convincing, ways to generate fakes...

[Leaning Right]

That was great!

[HangnJudge]

Agree, most Psychologists I know do not accept God and Creation as an invariant frame of reference.

What the article does do is to remind us that we are very easy to manipulate through our assumptions and biases.

[mumblypeg]

Seriously, all polls are BS because the basic premise of polls is BS.

We are told that “more than 50%” of 330 MILLION Americans think this-a-way because 26 people out of 50 polled answered thusly to 10 carefully contrived questions.

Fact is, the people polled will answer yay or nay. The result always has a 50% possibility of being right or wrong, and we can’t know if the *prediction* was correct until after the event has come to pass.

[Oatka]

You make a good point about fake polls. But in many cases you don’t even have to fake the numbers. All you have to do is slant the question a certain way, and you’ll get the results you want.

Here's one of the survey questions I got during the Kavanaugh hearing (The heading is mine as I posted it on Pinterest):

[rusty schucklefurd]

Re: “What the article does do is to remind us that we are very easy to manipulate through our assumptions and biases.“

Very true.

[Yaelle]

This is a good article. I needed this info. I can and have been fooled.

[Yaelle]

FReepers also believe unquestioningly if it fits our biases.