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Is Anything Still True? On the Internet, No One Knows Anymore (www.wsj.com)

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Is Anything Still True? On the Internet, No One Knows Anymore::New tools can create fake videos and clone the voices of those closest to us. ‘This is how authoritarianism arises.’

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is Anything Still True?

Something philosophers have been asking for thousands of years pre-internet. It's just been mainstreamed.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Exactly, truth was always based solely on an observers interpretation of events, and since we're not outside of the universe, but inside of it, we're not some neutral outside observer.