Your shiny new iPhone 15 Pro Max ...
Posted: December 2nd, 2023, 11:03 pm
... may not be all it seems - https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/11 ... rd-to-spot
It's a strange and disconcerting aspect of contemporary life that it's becoming increasingly difficult to determine what's actually real and what's not. In simpler times fakes were reassuringly obvious, but this phone is almost indistinguishable from the real thing, and I'm sure that 99% of buyers would be fooled. Perhaps the camera would give it away, but I'm sure that because people were convinced that they owned a real iPhone most of them would just accept that it wasn't as good as they'd hoped / expected, and never suspect it was a fake.
The same is happening in the world of luxury watches, where the fakes are now so good that it needs an expert to detect them.
Add in the deepfake technology being applied to sound and video, and the ability of AI to create text that is effectively the same as that created by a human, and the lines between reality and fakery are becoming worryingly blurred.
Worst of all, the trend can only head in one direction. Where will this leave us in 10 or even 5 years' time?
It's a strange and disconcerting aspect of contemporary life that it's becoming increasingly difficult to determine what's actually real and what's not. In simpler times fakes were reassuringly obvious, but this phone is almost indistinguishable from the real thing, and I'm sure that 99% of buyers would be fooled. Perhaps the camera would give it away, but I'm sure that because people were convinced that they owned a real iPhone most of them would just accept that it wasn't as good as they'd hoped / expected, and never suspect it was a fake.
The same is happening in the world of luxury watches, where the fakes are now so good that it needs an expert to detect them.
Add in the deepfake technology being applied to sound and video, and the ability of AI to create text that is effectively the same as that created by a human, and the lines between reality and fakery are becoming worryingly blurred.
Worst of all, the trend can only head in one direction. Where will this leave us in 10 or even 5 years' time?