On reddit people are discussing the very quick cementing of this new truth, where everything can retroactively be waved off as having been AI.
People talk about the loss of certainty on everything ever since AI became a significant factor.
I disagree, it would be pandemonium if everything needs double checking and nothing is real. I think there is an obvious solution:
Make it into law that any official statement is assumed true unless it’s redacted by the subject within a set amount of time.
Make it so people have an appeal window to any news outlet, with heavy consequences for platforms that do not redact.
We cannot be living in psychosis bizzarroland, and if Bibi says he’s alive then take the countries word for it.
Let’s say someone claims with a video that Trump is dead and replaced by a clone. Why would we allow for people to believe in that kind of nonsense which is obviously meant to divide people and turn a lot of them into crazies. If the administration would claim it’s untrue, then that should be published as truth using no uncertain terms: article x was deepfakes
Anyone who claims differently afterwards is perpetuating lies and should be held accountable
If there are norms saying content is true until proven otherwise as you say… Welll… That can also be exploited the other way around. I swear it’s not me abusing those minors. It was AI. I swear no it’s not me cheating my partner, it’s AI. It’s not me caught saying something compromising over what I thought was a closed microphone, it was AI.
I see what you are trying to do but this is a damned if you do, damned if you don’t kind of situation.
Wild open access to vast reliable information has to be a social anomaly. I think the US will basically rewrite the Internet to promote national interest. It’s worked well for China. I think they can basically control the population with an app.
Basically Internet becomes TV. It’s entertaining and could be educational, but it is mostly useful to help people find sales and remember to work hard and respect their financial betters.
The Internet had scads of potential, still does, but imagine how radio enthusiasm changed from two way to broadcast communication.
So, it’ll just be like the early ninties again? People had similar feelings about digital technology being easy to manipulate.