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Photoshop has existed for years and humans have been manipulating photos for longer, what's the difference, really?

If I see a photo in the Guardian newspaper (or any other reputable news outfit) I'm going to presume it's real, and I expect journalists to verify that for me. If I see a random photo that doesn't look quite right on a 4chan, I'm not going to immediately assume it's news.

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> Photoshop has existed for years and humans have been manipulating photos for longer, what's the difference, really?

Scale, cost, and reach.

Reach is no different, bots and humans are able to post to social media, and cost is probably no different at the moment either since AI isn't perfect, some human interaction is probably needed to make it believable, and because of that, scale is the same too. I think we're approaching all of those things but it's probably still quite some time away until a machine can be trusted to manipulate the public on its own.

> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

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