The great promise of the internet was that it would allow anyone to get access to information. This was seen as a great progress for humanity. Until we realized that not all information is born equal. Information can be useful, it can be fake, and even can be both at the same time. Reality used to hard to fake, and there was a sense that proofs were hard to forge — but some of that is gone with AI (see Deepfake for example.)
It it time to summon Walter Benjamin or the great mustachios?
Perfections of means and confusion of goals seem, in my opinion, to characterize our age. – Albert Einstein
Even Clint Eastwood mixes reality with fiction his last feature, “The 15:17 to Paris.
Danger is looming at the horizon.
He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis. Now He’s Worried About An Information Apocalypse. Charlie Warzel, BuzzfeedNews
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