Brillant piece on how AI-generated content undermines epistemic certainty and forces us back to first principles! Your syllogistic examples really nail the point about how we need structured reasoning when visual evidance can't be trusted anymore. I remmeber working on a disinformation research project where we tried tracking deepfakes, and it became clear pretty quickly that the old "seeing is believing" approach was toast. Your point about grandmother wisdom and testimony as reliable knowledge sources is lowkey genius tbh.
Before the age of AI my father taught me to, “Believe nothing that you hear and only half of what you see.” It is time for a restoration of Cartesian Doubt, as a default position.
Brillant piece on how AI-generated content undermines epistemic certainty and forces us back to first principles! Your syllogistic examples really nail the point about how we need structured reasoning when visual evidance can't be trusted anymore. I remmeber working on a disinformation research project where we tried tracking deepfakes, and it became clear pretty quickly that the old "seeing is believing" approach was toast. Your point about grandmother wisdom and testimony as reliable knowledge sources is lowkey genius tbh.
Thanks. I appreciate the kind words!
Before the age of AI my father taught me to, “Believe nothing that you hear and only half of what you see.” It is time for a restoration of Cartesian Doubt, as a default position.
Something like that! Yes