You can’t trust your eyes to tell you what’s real anymore, says the head of Instagram

Instagram brag Adam Mosseri is closing retired 2025 with a 20-images-deep dive into what a caller epoch of "infinite synthetic content" means arsenic it each becomes harder and harder to separate from reality, and the old, much idiosyncratic Instagram provender that helium 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, due to the fact that creating realistic and believable fake photos is present trivial to do," and Mosseri yet concurs:

For astir of my beingness I could safely presume photographs oregon videos were mostly close captures of moments that happened. This is intelligibly …

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