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GenAI Dismantles the Truth, and Dead Truth Breeds Blind Faith (And That's Not Good News!)
If fascination is the only feeling you sense in front of genAI, look for a remedy (and I have one)
Where we are
From techtarget.com:
Generative AI (GenAI) is a type of artificial intelligence technology that can produce various types of content, including text, imagery, audio and synthetic data.
Lost reliable memories
You are you, thanks to memories.
Memories build their truth on top of documentation, like photos. You remember your childhood based on photos your parents took and that you saw years later. Your remembrances would be like dreams without the possibility of consulting those photos.
This mechanism of memory is based on the reasonable assumption that those photos testify to facts and real people; this assumption is foundational to your identity.
Now, abandon that assumption and think of the following scenario.
You have photos of everything but can't rely on them because you cannot determine whether they are authentic or created by a GenAI.
