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Sure, but LLMS and image generators are not the death of "consensus reality". Healthy democracies will still have investigative journalism, public debate, trust

• pjc50 4mo ago
  > will still have investigative journalism, public debate, trustworthy institutions, etc. All of which are under serious threat from social media, buyouts by billionaires, and simple smear campaigns. Not dependent on AI, but effects which will be magnified by AI.
• naasking 4mo ago
  > Healthy democracies will still have investigative journalism, public debate, trustworthy institutions, etc. Boy do I wish that were the case. Investigative journalism is rare now and instead favours activist journalism, public debate is hard (but getting better), and institutional trust is at all time lows, for various reasons. People will muddle through regardless, we're not as fragile as most assume.