The Post-Authentic Era: Disinformation and the New Machinery of Lies

It really does.

Okay, the post-authentic era, disinformation and the new machinery of lies.

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AI disinformation is weaponized online reality.

During recent geopolitical conflicts, social media feeds dissolved into a synthetic fog of lifelike deepfakes and Arma 3 video game simulations passed off as live combat.

I mean, that's a real

thing.

They make these...

That's a real fake thing is really what I mean to say.

Yeah, the people really do that Yes, it's like it's basically a video game playing like oh This is a real combat scene and where I see this often the air traffic controller conversations, right? These are the boring people sure that make sure you get to your destination safely Yeah, and there will be like some like what I would call a sure a real big deal incident for the ATC folks but really a minor incident it's like

And the audio is recorded, but there's no video.

They send a plane onto the runway when another plane's landing.

That plane's got to do a go around, like very not safe, but they have systems in place to keep this from happening.

So the audio is not exciting.

The audio is like they send a plane, another plane comes in to land and it can't because it's on the runway.

And then there's video to go with it in these like these little Instagram shorts.

And you watch the video and you're like, wait a minute.

How did you get multiple camera shots of this? How did you get this shot? Yeah.

Who's filming this? And you realize, oh, the whole thing's a render.

And it's a really good render.

It's convincing.

The audio presumably is real, but the render is not.

So it's the same thing just with airplanes for dorks like me as opposed to warfare.

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