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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
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?
"Has film technology gone too far? 3d movies raise questions for experts, regulators"
Troubadors singing, "Ye cafe of Anne of Clevef: do manipulated oil portraitf undermine our fenfe of reality? Expertf difagree"
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
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
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 so far the only question 3d films have raised is "why do they keep pushing this stuff audiences don't like".
@evan China Miéville has a great book about an alien species that learns to lie. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9265453-embassytown
@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.
@evan funny how none of your made up examples go as far as the actual Comic Code Authority did.
@evan Be careful or experts will start proposing _reductio ad absurdum_ regulations and this thread will get you in a lot of trouble