I dont see how it could be plausible, given the photo apparently predates gen AI
That’s not how plausible deniability works. They create a tool that can make highly realistic graphics and then claim the real photos, when released, are just AI slop.
That doesn’t matter to the right, as long as they have something they can lie about they will
Because there’s no way to fake the data that determines a photos age?…. or they just refute any chain of custody with regards to any actual photos. The conservatives would just scream fake or AI regardless of the actual truth and that would be the end of it.
I think it might be simpler than that. I think the people who were already invested in energy heard about the energy needs of AI and started investing there to prop up the cost fossil fuel. Then Trump and friends got involved and killed several renewable energy initiatives. I think it’s all about greed, and not much else.
I just don’t think the fascist supporters really need AI as deniability. Even if Trump told them face-to-face that he loves raping children, they’ll make excuses for him, or act like it was just a joke.
Or use it to finally be truthful with everyone else that they are, in fact, the very same as he is.
They’ll start saying shit like “Epstein wasn’t a pedophile, he was into the barely legal 15 year olds” or something like that
“Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter” - conservatives,
probablyactually, inthe future2017Supporters defend Roy Moore: “Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter” | Vox - https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/9/16630464/supporters-defend-roy-moore-mary-joseph
Something something legal age in Japan!
