321. If “accuracy” is defined “as how much the photograph looks like the scene it depicts,” why doesn’t the word “accuracy” appear in the Trust Test?

Because looks are often deceiving in the digital age.

As is explained here, there is no longer any reliable connection between “appearance” and “trustworthiness.”

In fact, the most “accurate”-looking depiction of a scene often does not qualify as TTG—

—not if the photo was doctored or aigmented, as can easily be done to make photos “look more like” the scene depicted.

If viewers know (or suspect) that a photo was doctored or aigmented, many viewers will trust it less no matter how “accurate” it may look.

When it comes to trustworthiness, in the digital age there is no prize given to the photo that “looks most like” the scene that was photographed.