Consider the "truth level" of things.
Things you personally see = 10
Things you heard from a friend = 9
Things you heard from a stranger on the internet = 1
Things you heard from a professional talker on the internet = -10
Right now, truth is based mostly on those last 2.
You missed things you see on the internet/news. We all "saw" the World Trade Center towers come down.
Obviously, now, AI generated content sort of makes seeing on the internet not necessarily true.
We've always known that this machinery of "text and images acquired from remote sources" is profoundly thin and flimsy. Now it's just becoming obvious.
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