Foy on film

Jeff Childers, a lawyer who writes on the anti-vax side, has a lawyerly observation about the progress of AI.

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Soon, AI will not just be able to create millions of made-up videos, but it will also easily modify existing, ‘real’ video, of real people and real events, changing it into whatever the user wants.

It’s coming. It’s inevitable. Deal with it. In short order, video will be useless as evidence unless it is recorded on analog film. Remember Kodak? Analog film is probably rushing back into style. Buy Kodak stock. (Disclaimer: that was a joke and not financial advice. Don’t put your life savings into analog film. But still.)

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The analog advantage is already well-known in text. If you want a book that can’t be Rectified or deleted by Deepstate, buy a paper book and keep it.

I wonder if any of the old analog film companies have been keeping their skills and machines around, just in case? (Quick answer: Yes, including Kodak.) The machinery was massive and impressive: