AI making debunking harder...

[Jason Thompson]

Not directly related to the hoax arguments, but I just saw a post on social media purporting to describe the awesome Saturn V rocket that opens with an obvious AI fake video. The Saturn V was more or less right but it was lifting off between two launch umbilical towers on an absurdly oversized flame trench.

If even people expounding the awesomeness of the Apollo programme are going to resort to AI fakery in their presentations (which is ridiculous considering the ready availability of actual footage), conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day....

[onebigmonkey]

I notice tha Apollo Detectives are using AI to generate little movies obviously generated from interpolated hasselblad stills. I actually quite like them, but it would be easy for someone who didn't know the source to mistake them as genuine.

AI is increasingly being hailed as some sort of perfect source of information by people incapable of paraphrasing a book or journal article themselves, and often people are unable to tell whether the AI is correct. It often isn't.