I don’t think that’s a useful question to ask. The question isn’t how much it happens today but how much it’s going to happen in the future.
With technology like lyrebird become more accessible and video editing also becomes easier the barrier for faking media becomes lower year by year.
A single organization like a Russian infowar operation or a Mafia syndicate that focuses on leveraging the new technology could radically increase the number of affected people.
How much video proof evidence is used today is thus an upper bound for how useful it will be in the future, as video proof becomes easier to fake its credibility and thus usefulness diminishes.
If today we do not rely on video proofs that much, then this is not a big deal. If on the contrary we rely a lot in video proofs then this becomes a huge deal.
Could you sport a guess of how often does that happen, and which is thus the number of people affected each year for things like these? :)
I don’t think that’s a useful question to ask. The question isn’t how much it happens today but how much it’s going to happen in the future.
With technology like lyrebird become more accessible and video editing also becomes easier the barrier for faking media becomes lower year by year.
A single organization like a Russian infowar operation or a Mafia syndicate that focuses on leveraging the new technology could radically increase the number of affected people.
How much video proof evidence is used today is thus an upper bound for how useful it will be in the future, as video proof becomes easier to fake its credibility and thus usefulness diminishes.
If today we do not rely on video proofs that much, then this is not a big deal. If on the contrary we rely a lot in video proofs then this becomes a huge deal.