All digital information is misinformation
"This case with YouTube reveals the ways in which AI is increasingly a medium that defines our lives and realities," Woolley says. "People are already distrustful of content that they encounter on social media. What happens if people know that companies are editing content from the top down, without even telling the content creators themselves?"
– YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality
As digital reality begins to crumble, I am wondering how to reinforce greater connection with the real. The 2020 pandemic seemed to contain two duelling, contradictory narratives based the same channel of events, where it was difficult to discern what the real thing was, owing to algorithmic promotion of interpretations, as treated in The Social Dilemma, or other works and comments such as that of Jaron Lanier. So too the idea of augmented reality as in the BBC article above is such that anything digital can and, presumably, will be no more trustworthy than the algorithms that positioned whether or not we see important information. In effect, all digital information is becoming disinformation.
Thankful for engagements like Ruth Gaskovski’s that are trying to take back a bit of our experience of reality from digital disreality.