Jesse Rogerson

They did three of them.

They had a range of participants in the hundreds.

And what they did is they would show them videos.

Some would be real and some would be deepfake made specifically for the study.

And the videos would be an interview with a person who is admitting to doing a crime or admitting to do a transgression against a friend or something like that.

And for some of them, they were given the warning, hey, this video is a fake video.

And for some of them, they weren't.

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, and so there's the two problems where it's like, you don't know if it's real or not, but,