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Part of me is morbidly curious about the possible chaos all this will be causing in 5 years. Maybe humanity can’t survive the mist this will bring.

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It’ll be fine. Keep in mind that the world has run on handwritten signatures for a few hundred years. And anyone could say anything in a letter with no “pixels” to prove it right.

Digital media as strong evidence has been a novelty.

If anything the real thing to watch out for will be the echo of national digital ID. This would certainly solve the mild/moderate issues of deepfakes while (if done poorly) risking a serious upgrade to surveillance state/capitalism.

Can these ai things generate a realistic signature?

Humans can generate realistic fake signatures. That‘s the point.

I wonder if having all this "strong evidence" has caused us modern people to lose the social norms and relationships that people had to depend on back when human trust was more important. Like, good fences make good neighbors but what happens when all of a sudden the fences don't work anymore and we have to be good neighbors without them?

I'm guessing an uncomfortable transition period at least.

The social norms of yore were not established by trust, but by the expectation of violence, real or perceived, should one decline to practice them.

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