Or not. What if the Great Filter isn't a nuclear war but collapse of ability to tell truth from falsehood? To tell reality from fake images and videos?
We've managed so far! Try to follow the war in Syria for a little bit and you will find that people can fake video just fine even in a warzone. They don't need "Deepfake". Even presidents of nation-states want to believe those fakes. Nothing new under the sun.
We had verification problems since video existed:
- When was that video taken?
- Where was that video taken?
- Are the objects in the video what they seem to be?
- Is the people in the video the people we think they are?
- Is the video grainy because it's a shit camera?
- Which of the possibly conflicting interpretations is right?
- Why is only this angle published when we know the event was filmed from another?
Or not. What if the Great Filter isn't a nuclear war but collapse of ability to tell truth from falsehood? To tell reality from fake images and videos?