In recent years, we have all realized how thin the line between truth and lies often is.
Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 5:57 am
In future communication, lying will become more difficult or even impossible. This may sound contradictory at first, but on closer inspection it is not.
On the one hand, without AI support, people will increasingly have problems identifying false statements, fake news, or increasingly cleverly faked photos and even videos. On the other hand, for appropriately trained machine learning models, this is a small matter. People can therefore be deceived more and more easily. However, those who have the technology hold the truth in their hands, so to speak - both in exposing lies and in placing false information.
Our good name , the reputation of individuals and companies will bc data become more important again in the future. It will therefore be even more important not to allow any outliers to arise that could tarnish our white vest. The big challenge here is the fact that the essential means of evaluating this will no longer be in our hands in the future.
You only have to occasionally look at the political news to see this. Alternative facts have been around for a long time, but the new acceptance of the old concept of lying is difficult to explain.
People will increasingly find themselves caught between technologically generated untruths and exposure through this very technology. But it is precisely this roller coaster ride that will eventually tire us out and cause our willingness to distinguish truth from lies, right from wrong, to come to a halt.
But if the general public loses interest and no longer resists certain developments, the door is wide open for abuse. Only understanding the possibilities, cooperation and the demand for appropriate control measures can prevent worse things from happening. Not everything that is possible should be permitted for everyone, as long as it is not in the interest of the general public.
On the one hand, without AI support, people will increasingly have problems identifying false statements, fake news, or increasingly cleverly faked photos and even videos. On the other hand, for appropriately trained machine learning models, this is a small matter. People can therefore be deceived more and more easily. However, those who have the technology hold the truth in their hands, so to speak - both in exposing lies and in placing false information.
Our good name , the reputation of individuals and companies will bc data become more important again in the future. It will therefore be even more important not to allow any outliers to arise that could tarnish our white vest. The big challenge here is the fact that the essential means of evaluating this will no longer be in our hands in the future.
You only have to occasionally look at the political news to see this. Alternative facts have been around for a long time, but the new acceptance of the old concept of lying is difficult to explain.
People will increasingly find themselves caught between technologically generated untruths and exposure through this very technology. But it is precisely this roller coaster ride that will eventually tire us out and cause our willingness to distinguish truth from lies, right from wrong, to come to a halt.
But if the general public loses interest and no longer resists certain developments, the door is wide open for abuse. Only understanding the possibilities, cooperation and the demand for appropriate control measures can prevent worse things from happening. Not everything that is possible should be permitted for everyone, as long as it is not in the interest of the general public.