Jesse Rogerson

For others, they were given a warning that was more generic, a warning along the lines of, like, fake videos exist in the world.

You should be aware of this, right?

And then they watched the videos, and after this, they asked them a series of questions.

And basically, it was like...

asking them to judge the person, you know, was the person guilty?

Was the person not guilty?

Should they have done this?

Should they not have done this?

It was about the various social situations they were in.

And even if, this is the crazy thing, is that even if they were told it was a fake video, those people still judged that person in a negative way, indicating that even though it wasn't real, they were still influenced by the way the video presented the information.

So this bothers... This worries me for two reasons.

And it's... So there's the two problems where it's like you don't know if it's real or not.

But...

I think the very act of being shown something is going to change your perception about something.

This almost reminds me of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in physics, which is a whole other thing.

This is also what I think politicians do very often is they'll float ideas.

They'll say an idea and they'll sort of test the waters if that idea is good or not.

And then they'll backtrack or they'll move forward depending.

And I feel like that's what these AI videos do is they sort of push you around and like, what are you willing to stand?

What are you not willing to stand?