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What Happens When AI-Generated Lies Are More Compelling Than the Truth?
What if the danger of AI-generated misinformation isn’t that we’ll believe it—it’s that we’ll eventually stop believing anything at all?
A year earlier, when Biden announced his reelection bid, the Republican National Committee released through its YouTube channel an ad that offered, as the party put it, “an AI-generated look into the country’s possible future if Joe Biden is reelected.” The ad, which featured deepfake images of boarded-up stores, marauding immigrants, and Chinese jets bombing Taiwan, would have been even easier to create, and considerably more convincing, had the committee had access to Sora, the eerily artful video-generating bot OpenAI unveiled in 2024. “Every expert I spoke with,” reports an Atlantic writer, “said it’s a matter of when, not if, we reach a deepfake inflection point, after which forged videos and audio spreading false information will flood the internet.” Artificial intelligence, perhaps humanity’s greatest monument to logical thinking, may trigger a revolution in perception that overthrows the shared values of reason and rationality we inherited from the Enlightenment.
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