Nilay Patel

You can no longer trust a photo.

You can't trust a video of any event is actually real and reality will start to crumble.

And you can just look at events in the United States over the past month.

The reaction to ICE killing Alex Preddy was, well, we all saw it.

And it's because there was lots of video of that event from multiple angles and everyone said, well, we can all see it.

And the foundation of that is we can trust that video.

And I'm looking at Adam Masseri saying we're going to start with skepticism.

We can no longer assume photos or videos are accurate captures of moments that happened.

This is the term.

This is the point of the standard.

Do you see Masseri saying this out loud about Instagram is the end point of this?

Is this war just lost?

I'm going to make you keep arguing with Adam Aseri.

We've invited Adam on the show.

We'll have him on and maybe we can have this debate with him in person.

But for now, you're going to keep arguing with his blog post.

He says platforms like Instagram will do good work identifying AI content, but it will get worse over time as AI gets better.

It will be more practical to fingerprint real media than fake media.

Labeling is only part of the solution, he says.

We need to surface much more context about the account's sharing content so people can make informed decisions.