Humans Aren’t Mentally Ready for an AI-Saturated ‘Post-Truth World’
Humans Aren’t Mentally Ready for an AI-Saturated ‘Post-Truth World’
The AI era promises a flood of disinformation, deepfakes, and hallucinated “facts.” Psychologists are only beginning to grapple with the implications.
News media and "the truth" is already a dumpster fire. I don't think this is going to be much of a departure.
We weren't ready for Photoshop or the internet either.
The younger generations will figure it out as before.
Quoting Carl Sagen: One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
It's not like AI is really the first time people in the media lie, what's the difference?