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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

Facial recognition scans are so detailed that that data can be used to make highly realistic deepfakes. Deepfakes with higher resolution than an ordinary video recording. And a couple layers of abstraction can obscure the origins of the "video"...

We're entering some truly dystopian times...