What's so dreadful about a faked picture? It's common knowledge that they are done all the time under the name of enhancement. There are all sorts of online programs to effect this habit that's been around since computers hit the desks and pockets. The media space AI is taking up and the apologies spated about it widely, make me smile a bit. Fakes? Yes, but it's been done for ages in time. Think of the elaborate court wigs, the great pouffed skirts, the masks in Venice even Santa himself. It's all fakery perhaps not as badly used as now, but done previously without hype or panic. Today's fashion magazine, the one with the slender ladies, now, of course, pilled up (or down) with waistlines the size of their bejewelled necks make no apologies about fakery. We love fakes as we did from the first days of humankind when ashy facial marks out of cave fire sticks were made to scare off the enemy. Fakery nowadays , however, has become political and is used as weapons. It's also used by vicious persons who think that the printed word as a weapon is less hurtful or litigous than those spoken. That's bad because today's human image depends on purity and anyone who thinks no one will dig out the dirt, is misled. And we want our leaders (or most of us in sane countries) to be only a tad less than gods. Where it all goes wrong to fake it, is when you tell everyone you are clean and you aren't. It's call lying. These lies are also confusing because as everyone knows, most advertising is lying and we see nothing wrong about it. We play the consumer game. Then again, we love the ads because, truth legally, we allow them. To an extent. The world at large, we know, has fault but it's a game of trying to dodge around the "little white lies" to keep the peace. Ah, such a peace we keep. But, as my BFF used to say "we're interesting".
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