What Is Real?
Determining reality in a world of AI, altered media, and synthetic food.
February 04, 2025
Key points from this story:
- AI alters media and film seamlessly
- Social media credibility declining
- Political figures muddy truth perception
- Lab-grown meat and substitutes rise
- Fake honey disrupts industry
- Precision fermentation challenges dairy authenticity
We have a growing problem in our world, and how we deal with it moving forward will be critical. The issue is how we determine what is 'real' in our world.
It starts with what we see every day. You can have cellphones where the camera feature can add and delete aspects of a photo seen on a whim. The resulting image is at that point a thing of fiction, no longer representing what was actually before the camera lens when the photo was taken.
We read about how artificial intelligence has crept fully into animation. We see long-dead actors appearing near seamlessly in film. Words to a story can come as easily from a computer program as from the human mind. So what is real?
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