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https://www.fastcompany.com/91368492/ai-video-tricking-tourists-places-that-dont-exist>
"I can perfectly imagine the pain, confusion, and betrayal in the voice of the
elderly Malaysian woman who, according to a hotel staff member, asked “Why do
they do this to people?” when she found out that her dream holiday destination
wasn’t real but a video fabricated with Veo3, the generative artificial engine
made by Google. She and her husband had just driven three hours from Kuala
Lumpur to this location in Perak state, convinced they would find a scenic
cable car attraction called the Kuak Skyride. Instead of a gondola to wander
across paradise, they found nothing but a quiet town and a hotel worker trying
to explain that the glamorous TV journalist they’d watched on TikTok—the one
who had ridden the tram through lush forests and interviewed happy tourists—had
never existed at all.
There was a Veo3 logo in the bottom right corner. How on Earth didn’t they see
that? Oh well, it’s something to tell the grandkids and feel really dumb. No
criminals lifting $200,000 from their savings account, no false accusations to
sink grandpa’s reputation, like others have experienced thanks to AI-made
videos. No real harm done.
Except it
is harmful. It’s another brick out of the walls of our reality in a
world that’s been crumbling in this post-truth era. AI has made the impossible
indistinguishable from the actual, and now it’s turning even vacation planning
into a minefield of false experiences. The alleged Malaysian couple’s story
might sound like an isolated incident, but it’s the expression of something far
more sinister—the complete erosion of our ability to trust what we see, hear,
and experience in a world where artificial intelligence can manufacture any
narrative with increasingly terrifying precision."
Via
The RISKS Digest Volume 34 Issue 72:
https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/34/72#subj14
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
