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Does that somehow invalidate the message of the article?




It weakens the message because knowing that the image is fake casts equal doubt on anything which the text says.

This is total nonsense. Every reader will understand that Jobs was never photographed like that while saying "stop" to anyone crossing his red lines. Even if the photo exists, it would have been out of context.

The only question here is if using that image is tasteful or not.

Also, suggesting that Jobs did not have these red lines is not making the situation any better.


Well, I'm another person who shares that opinion. When I see AI in an article, I think: If an author will use AI to fake one thing, what else is he willing to fake? It totally draws into question the credibility of the whole article.

No it does not. Give some real arguments against the article otherwise I'm going to assume bad faith.

While it may not be totally sensible, using AI imagery to depict something that never happened definitely does decrease trust. The exact same effect can be seen happening in sports as they added gambling on top. People are losing faith that the truth hasn’t been manipulated because there is ample opportunity to break trust and insert fiction.

What decreases trust is taking something innocent and blowing it out of proportion, then using it to attack people.

But what cause that decrease to happen is by presenting false things as accurate. There will always be someone snooping around and if it’s an obvious false thing then people will make lots of noise about it, the evidence is this post thread.

It doesn’t matter if they actually cheated at sports or if the image is real. The threat of it being untrustworthy is actively eroding trust.


We are at an impasse then. You can't prove an opinion. Have a great day.



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