You Can’t Trust Your Eyes To Tell You What’s Real Anymore, Says The Head Of Instagram

Instagram leader Adam Mosseri is closing retired 2025 with a 20-images-deep dive into what a caller era of "infinite synthetic content" intends arsenic it each becomes harder and harder to separate from reality, and nan old, much individual Instagram provender that he says has been "dead" for years. Last year, The Verge's Sarah Jeong wrote that "…the default presumption astir a photograph is astir to go that it's faked, because creating realistic and believable clone photos is now trivial to do," and Mosseri yet concurs:

For astir of my life I could safely presume photographs aliases videos were mostly meticulous captures of moments that happened. This is intelligibly …

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