Artificial intelligence will supercharge Pallywood and anti-Israel lies

Artificial intelligence is advancing at a breakneck pace, and Pallywood is about to enter a golden age.

For years, we've seen anti-Israel activists post photos that have been manipulated, photos that have been staged, falsely captioning real photos to give a fake narrative, real photos from elsewhere in the world using false captions, gruesome scenes from videogames and movies that they claimed were of Palestinians killed by the IDF, and staged videos passed off as real. 

The fake photos and videos are distributed worldwide at Internet speed. The vast majority of their intended audience do not even consider that they are being duped, and even the fastest fact checker and debunkers do not have nearly the reach that the Israel haters do. 

In short, Pallywood works.

But as bad as it is now, it is going to get a whole lot worse.

We are on the cusp of having AI tools that will be able to generate convincing photos and videos with nothing more than a text prompt. 

There are no limits as to what anti-Israel liars will be able to do.

It is already possible to insert fake people in real scenes without extensive Photoshop knowledge - including shadows and lighting. Or to add extra blood and guns and fake soldiers to existing videos. But very soon - and we are talking weeks, not years - anyone will be able to create entire new, exceptional quality videos from whole cloth. 

Of whatever they can imagine.

The Israel haters have a huge advantage: they are not constrained by truth. They already use every tool they can think of to create lies. But until now, it was possible to search and find the original photos and scenes to prove they were lying. But now they will be able to create videos that look like shaky hand-held iPhone videos in the territories of whatever human rights abuses they can dream up. 

As bad as things are now, they will be far worse when anyone can generate anything they want.

This is where the media has failed. They could have been pointing out the Pallywood lies for years, showing how Palestinians are conditioned to play act for cameras and tell reporters and NGOs what they want to hear. Instead, the media has been part of the problem - helping stage photos themselves to tell their narrative rather than caring about the truth.

Because, nowadays, truth is subjective, and narratives are truth. Facts are oppressive. "Fact-checkers" are another layer of hiding truth. 

Faking photos - or, soon, videos - is not morally different from staging them, like perfectly clean dolls positioned just so. Or cute children promoted to act for the camera. Or bringing elderly ladies to the middle of a destroyed building for no discernible reason except a photo op..

Now, the manipulators won't even need the actors.

As long as the purpose of the lies is to further the Cause.

Things are going to get a whole lot worse very, very quickly.

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