Reflections on technology

📖 I read an interesting article that talks about the growing distrust spreading online, especially regarding content generated by artificial intelligence.

❌ The problem is not only the reliability of the content, but also how people are increasingly struggling to distinguish what is authentic from what is false.

It often happens to me as well to come across misleading content.
How many times have I seen the preview of a video and thought,

"Oh my God, but could it be true?"


🦉 Like the other day, I saw a video showing a giant owl.

I can't tell you how happy I would have been if it were true 😍 (I'm an animal lover).
But then, after some in-depth research, I find out that such a giant owl doesn't exist. 😒

😠 And that feeling of being fooled... not nice, right?


So I ask myself: what is the purpose of this falsification?
To gain a few more views?
Have we really come to this?
Why, just to make some numbers, do we have to deceive people?

It really seems mean to me.

🧑‍🦳 This problem becomes even bigger when applied to older people.
My mom for example, who is about 60, often has difficulty recognizing what is true or false online.

😵‍💫 She sometimes comes across content that scares or confuses her, and I, every time, have to check what she has seen, what she has read, because she doesn't have the same awareness of how technology can be manipulated.


🕳️ So, this is the dark side of our digital reality: the ease with which someone can deceive others.

💥 I truly believe that companies should work on this: the need to find ways that provide verification of authenticity for people when they encounter their products/their videos/their words.

❗ We can't live in an era that makes uncertainty its greatest success!!!❗