Checking the date | Seth’s Weblog

After 2022, it’s laborious to inform for positive.

And going ahead, public life goes to be much more rumor-driven than it’s now.

Any video, any voiceover, any {photograph}–we will’t make certain. If YouTube or the Wayback Machine reveals us that it occurred after 2022, deliver some doubt. AI and digital cools can produce an ideal voiceover, edit a video, forge a doc…

There have at all times been forces at work that prize disrupting our civic methods. However because of AI and digital deepfakes, it’s considerably simpler to create and unfold a narrative that merely didn’t occur. A speech that was by no means given, an interview that by no means occurred.

Earlier than mass media, each citizen solely had the experiences they noticed firsthand–and the rumors. Typically they have been true, typically, not a lot.

The convenience with which somebody can invent and unfold lies goes to take most of us unexpectedly. It’s going to require a wholly new posture for understanding the world round us.

Every single day is April Fools any more, let’s not get fooled.