Comment by plomme
8 hours ago
I think it may turn out postive; That the less we are able to take images and video at face value the better.
Motivated actors have been able to doctor, fake, or spin media content since time immemorial. But peoples default mode was to trust what they saw. Now that fake imagery is ubiquitous, maybe we'll all get a bit more skeptical.
The death of consensus reality is also the death of democratic politics. Too many people regard that as a positive.
Sure, but LLMS and image generators are not the death of "consensus reality". Healthy democracies will still have investigative journalism, public debate, trustworthy institutions, etc.
> will still have investigative journalism, public debate, trustworthy institutions, etc.
All of which are under serious threat from social media, buyouts by billionaires, and simple smear campaigns. Not dependent on AI, but effects which will be magnified by AI.
> Healthy democracies will still have investigative journalism, public debate, trustworthy institutions, etc.
Boy do I wish that were the case. Investigative journalism is rare now and instead favours activist journalism, public debate is hard (but getting better), and institutional trust is at all time lows, for various reasons.
People will muddle through regardless, we're not as fragile as most assume.
being skeptical and determining the truth takes a lot of work. I fear that we may just refuse to wade through all the lies and just accept a enforced willful ignorance.
You're right. But I'd rather be uninformed than misinformed.