AI deepfakes are a train wreck and Samsung’s selling tickets
TL;DR
Samsung executives face questions about AI's impact on photo authenticity, highlighting societal concerns over deepfakes and the erosion of trust in visual evidence.
On Thursday morning, I attended a Q&A panel with four top Samsung smartphone executives. Until 2025, Samsung was the world's largest smartphone manufacturer, and by association, the world's largest maker of cameras. It's still the second largest after Apple.
Samsung handed me the microphone first. I asked:
We see a divide in society between people who want AI to do impressive things with their photos and videos, and those who don't want AI to do anything with photos and videos because it's eroding our ability to believe that what we have seen is real, destroying the concept of photographic evidence.
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