The Advent of Truth-Destroying
Technology
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Paul Craig Roberts
Tyler Durden on Zero Hedge reports that the ability to falsify reality
is growing by leaps and bounds. Thoughtless geeks have now developed
technology that makes fake reality indistinguishable from real reality:
“I don’t think we’re well prepared at all. And I don’t think the public
is aware of what’s coming,” said the Chairman of the House Intelligence
Committee. He was discussing the rapid advance of synthesis technology. This
new artificial intelligence capability allows competent programmers to create
audio and video of anyone, saying absolutely anything.
The creations are called “deepfakes” and however outrageous they may
be, they’re virtually indistinguishable from the real thing.
No sooner had we adjusted to a world where our reality seemed fake,
then things that are fake became our reality.
“We’re outgunned,” said a UC Berkeley digital-forensics expert, “The
number of people now working on video-synthesis outnumber those working on
detecting deepfakes by 100-1.” . . . Already two-thirds of
Americans say altered images and videos have become a major problem for
understanding the basic facts of current events.
Misinformation researchers warn of growing “reality apathy” whereby it
takes so much effort to distinguish between what’s real and fake that we simply
give up and rely on our base instincts, tribal biases, impulses. Immersed in
our leader’s deceits, we come to believe in nothing. Two oil tankers burst into
flames, billowing smoke.
On cue, a suspicious Iranian Revolutionary Guard boat appeared on
grainy video. Viral images flooded earth’s nine billion screens. Each side told
a different story. No one quite knew who to trust. Conspiracy theories filled
the void, as we each clung to what we most want to believe.
Why is it that tech geeks take pride in developing technology that
makes truth even harder to find? What is wrong with their character
as humans that they create methods of destroying the ability to know truth? How
is this different from releasing an undetectable substance into the air that
wipes out life?
The only use of this technology is to allow the police state complete
control. It is
now possible
to put words and deeds into the mouths and actions of anyone and use
the faked evidence to convict them of the simulated crime.
Without truth there is no liberty, no freedom, no independent thought,
and no awareness. There is only The Matrix.
How has America so lost the way that corporations, investors, and
scientists are motivated to develop truth-destroying technology? Aren’t
these mindless idiots our real enemies?
The most difficult thing in the world today is to ascertain the truth. It
is what I attempt to do for readers. Those who rely on this website
should support it. This site has very loyal supporters, which is why
it exists. But it has far more users than supporters. The
cavalier attitude toward truth on the part of so many readers is not
encouraging of the survival of truth.
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