How Will We Know What Is Real in a World of AI-Generated Images, Video and Voice?

In the intelligence community, we assume everything digital is compromised. We use 'Multi-INT' (Multiple Intelligence) fusion. A video of a troop movement is meaningless (https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/studies-in-intelligence/archives/vol-65-no-2/multi-int-fusion/). But if we have a video, *plus* satellite thermal imaging of the area, *plus* intercepted radio chatter, *plus* a human asset on the ground, and they all align, then it's real. Civilians will have to adopt a 'Multi-INT' mindset. A ...

We are returning to a pre-Gutenberg epistemology. For the last 150 years, we trusted the *medium* (a photograph, a video, a printed newspaper) as proof of reality (https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/the-end-of-photographic-truth.php). Before photography, you didn't trust the medium; you trusted the *messenger*. If a trusted elder said it happened, it happened. AI destroys the credibility of the medium. We will revert to trusting the messenger. You won't believe a video because you saw it; yo...