A deepfake of my uncle on a fake trip has our family second-guessing home videos.

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My aunt got a fake video of my grandpa last Christmas. We almost deleted real memories thinking they were fake too. Now we look for tiny flaws, like weird shadows or off sounds. Keep original videos on a separate hard drive, not the cloud. It sucks but you learn to trust the old stuff more.

brianm661mo ago

How deep does this rabbit hole go though? Soon we'll be side-eyeing real videos from last year because the light looks a little too perfect. It's scary that the doubt makes you second-guess everything, even the genuine moments. Your point about the old stuff is right, because at least you know the tech couldn't fake it back then. Now that gut feeling of something being off is just a normal part of watching anything. Honestly, it's messed up that 'real' needs a backup plan.

leo_black7618d ago

Remember that video of the dog skateboarding that went viral last year? My friend swore it was fake, but it was just his neighbor's weirdly talented poodle. Now I get what @ninacarr means about playing detective. I spent twenty minutes looking at the dog's paws in slow-mo instead of just enjoying the trick. It's like we're all proofreaders for reality now, checking the pixels on a sunset or if a bird flew too smoothly. That fun of just watching something cool is totally gone.

ninacarr1mo ago

Man this stuff just kills the whole point of home videos lol. It's not even about storage, it's about how you stop telling stories because you're too busy playing detective. My cousin showed a clip from a birthday and half the room was just squinting at the wall texture instead of laughing. Like, the fun part is dead now because we have to run a background check on our own memories. Pretty soon people just won't bother filming stuff because the hassle of proving it's real ruins the moment.