Artificial Intelligence Is Creating A Fake World -- What Does That Mean For Humans?

"“Seeing is believing” or is it? There once was a time when we could have confidence that what we saw depicted in photos and videos was real. Even when Photoshopping images became popular, we still knew that the images started as originals. Now, with advances in artificial intelligence, the world is becoming more artificial, and you can’t be sure what you see or hear is real or a fabrication of artificial intelligence and machine learning. In many cases, this technology is used for good, but now that it exists, it can also be used to deceive."

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...-what-does-that-mean-for-humans/#6e1970b432bf

What do we do when even video can't be trusted? Will the Fake News purveyors refrain from using such deception? Will governments use these "advancements" to convincingly create whatever narrative that they wish?

I believe that we all know the answer to these questions. Persons and agencies will use whatever tools, they have, in order to pursue their goals.

Just imagine the CIA, in a presidential briefing, saying: Look, we have the video.

Media could create fake people. There might be another Antifa riot, and the Fake News could insert some non-existent Nazis, and call them the instigators.

 

Quite disturbing.

The only upside I see, potentially anyways, is that this sort of thing is misused by friend and foe often enough that WE ALL start taking everything with a grain of salt. Hopefully we'd all learn not to be so easily manipulated.

 

Ouch!

 

Maybe so. What happens when nothing can be trusted?

I think it will lead to paralysis. I can see a time in which people increasingly view the government, the world, and their lives as things that happen to them, rather than as thingd that they actively participate in.