Thanks to rapid advancements in generative AI and a glut of training data created by human actors that has been fed into its AI model, Synthesia has been able to produce avatars that are indeed more humanlike and more expressive than their predecessors. The digital clones are better able to match their reactions and intonation to the sentiment of their scripts—acting more upbeat when talking about happy things, for instance, and more serious or sad when talking about unpleasant things. They also do a better job matching facial expressions—the tiny movements that can speak for us without words.

But this technological progress also signals a much larger social and cultural shift. Increasingly, so much of what we see on our screens is generated (or at least tinkered with) by AI, and it is becoming more and more difficult to distinguish what is real from what is not. This threatens our trust in everything we see, which could have very real, very dangerous consequences.

“I think we might just have to say goodbye to finding out about the truth in a quick way,” says Sandra Wachter, a professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, who researches the legal and ethical implications of AI. “The idea that you can just quickly Google something and know what’s fact and what’s fiction—I don’t think it works like that anymore.”

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    6 months ago

    First of, our universe doesn’t change the moment we touch something, else any interaction would create a parallel universe, which in itself is fiction and unobservable.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment

    Then you talk about removing persistent information. Why would you do that and how would you do that? What is the point of even wanting or trying to do that?

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_eraser_experiment

    No Man’s Sky is using generic if else switch cases to generate randomness.

    If/else statements can’t generate randomness. They can alter behavior based on random input, but they cannot generate randomness in and of themselves.

    Even current AI is deterministic

    No, it’s stochastic.