Fake AI and Faking AI

I read a newsletter where it was rumoured/assumed that people were faking AI. How weird, and it turned out that wasn’t true.

Now if people were using AI to fake things up, that is quite common nowadays. Videos or audios of people, especially famous ones, can be easily created. But there’s almost always a slight misgivings that shows the media is not real. It gets harder but human still manages to discern, most of the time. However there will come a time when it is not discernible anymore, so what will happen then?

I remember when I was slightly younger, Photoshop was the rage. You can make photos of you visiting far flung places, or doing crazy things, or sometimes used to defame someone by creating fake obscene pictures. But overtime people began to realise that photos can be easily modified, and ‘photoshop’ became a verb. Over the years it is not surprising anymore to hear artists photoshopped their body and people stopped believing what they’re seeing in the magazines. But then you hear people meeting this famous artists and saying that they look gorgeous in real life.

Similarly about a decade ago, autotune was a software that could make your voice sound ‘pleasant’ and there were a number of artists that became famous who turned out to use Autotune. Then it became a bit of a norm that artists normally have their voice ‘autotuned’ or known as post-production (I must admit I do not know much about these things so I might get the terms wrong). But then you hear people going to concerts or reality music shows showing people singing live and sometimes, that people commented how good these artists’ voices are.

What I am trying to say is there will be a time that these ‘faking’ products will be saturated and people accepting the norm, but in doing so, will be going back to the original way where this ‘faking’ process is not possible. Right now people can maybe copy paste chatGPT answers and appear smart, but in the future people will most likely revert to just asking face-to-face and gauge how far you understand something.

Just like how normal communication would be.

Thank you for reading.