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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Distracted DM" data-source="post: 9816737" data-attributes="member: 6894926">I didn't want to derail the thread by continuing the ethics conversation, I felt like it was my bad because I brought it up in the first place, so I feel a little better that you're not put off by the convo happening here.To answer the other poster, "what societal impact?" I was talking both industry (which you addressed) and existentially... it used to be very expensive to make completely new video, to fake videos of events. You needed specialized skills, expensive CGI, etc. Now anyone can churn that content out, and it takes a keen eye to tell whether the night-cam video of rabbits jumping on a trampoline is real or fake. Why does it matter? Because it's altering our perception of reality, and the information that we absorb as fact. Just a year or two ago, you could watch a video of a baby panda sneezing, or live feed of a rare bird's nest, and you didn't really have to ask "is this real?" You could take that for granted, because it'd be ridiculously expensive to fake something like that, and the gain wouldn't be worth it.Now you find out that rabbits and deer can't jump on trampolines like that, because quadrupeds can't really make use of them in the same way that bipeds can, and some small aspects of your perception of reality are thrown into question. This stuff is all over my wife's Tiktok feed, and I find it a bit unnerving <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😅" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f605.png" title="Grinning face with sweat    :sweat_smile:" data-shortname=":sweat_smile:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>

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