A fake image of an explosion at the Pentagon showed the ability of cheap AI apps to move global financial markets, and nobody seems to know what to do about it.
15 years ago, and it is a common theme. Big tech bros invent AI-based cool developments which humanity goes mad for, before learning that things were way better without them, and an unlikely hero saves the day with derring-do.
The potential for markets to be manipulated, societal unrest to be fomented, and individuals to be targeted by all kinds of horrible online hoaxes has arrived, and we are nowhere near prepared to deal with it. Veterans called the image a “slap in the face” and, despite being proved fake, it succeeded in portraying Kerry as an anti-military service candidate, ahead of his very narrow loss to George W. Bush.
While he got his timings wrong, we are now in the counterfeit reality era, whether we believe it or not.
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