Watched a debate on major media channels where people were arguing that pictures of killed children were AI pictures (and the opposite side refusing it) What k

Watched a debate on major media channels where people were arguing that pictures of killed children were AI pictures (and the opposite side refusing it) What kind of a world we have devolved into, where technological progress makes us less human, on average. I am saddened by the changes brought about by AI, be it generative art or LLMs, where, because of it, on a global scale, no one knows what truth is, even in pictures and videos. And we have the perfect tinderbox of siloed wells on social media, with tools to generate authentic looking content that can be disseminated at essentially 0 cost, automated at 0 effort and be used to indoctrinate people at 0 consequences from governments. It does not matter if people are caught after the fact, the mind that has been indoctrinated, cannot be reverted with the same ease. And we are generating a bunch of children now, who will be adults later, who will essentially reject reality, reject the need for empathy because what they see may or may not be the truth. It used to be that 10 years before, if one saw the pictures of carnage or destruction or dead children, a spark of empathy may be generated, enough to ignite change, no matter how small. In the near future, that may not be the case because that photo or video or content has the probability of being AI generated and that spark of empathy will die without a chance to ignite change. And now we have billions of dollars being invested by the very governments that will feel the effects of these short sighted decisions to unleash technology seldom understood and have no clue as to its long term effects.