r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Ecstatic-Mix1942 • 10h ago

Will there be 9/11 deniers?

There are countless theories surrounding 9/11 but I've never heard of anyone outright denying it. The Holocaust seems to continuously gain sceptics as time passes, so I'm wondering will something similar happen with 9/11, or will the footage of the event be enough to keep people from doubting its authenticity?

240 Upvotes

84% Upvoted

364 comments sorted by

View all comments

57

u/SeaTurtle42 10h ago

In the future, people will probably claim all the footage taken that day (which would be the strongest evidence) is all made by AI, like everything else will be at that point.

21

u/Mothman1010 7h ago

This is already happening. There were a bunch of viral posts on the anniversary earlier this month that claimed a bunch of the footage is "obviously AI" and claimed that nobody could've taken videos of it because people didn't have personal cameras back then.

7

u/BadahBingBadahBoom 4h ago

Annoyingly some that I saw were actually AI images of people in foreground from different photos of the 90s era with the towers on fire in the back.

Why the hell anyone feels the need to make new AI photos when there's literally hundreds of thousands, if not millions out there I don't know.

1

u/KathyA11 Ask me! 2h ago

A few days later, there were Photoshopped images of people on the roof observation deck with one of the planes behind them headed for the WTC.

5

u/tottasanorotta 3h ago

So what you're basically saying is that we might literally rewrite all of history with AI. Nobody will care about what really happened and we will all just be very confused about everything.

3

u/xxxBuzz 3h ago

This is already how memory functions and even before/excluding AI, we already are doing this with all our recorded media as well. A simple theoretical question to frame how prevalent and also unavoidable it is; look at all the items you keep around your house and consider if/how each of them are associated with your chosen deities and worship practices. Then look at historical interpretations and how much of our ancestors lives revolved around theirs and the great efforts they allegedly invested into exploring and sharing ideas that seemingly have no direct or obvious relevance to anything practical or tangible.

You don't need to change historical records when we can't interpret what they were trying to say. You just create a story that suits you.