During a recent lunchbreak at the office, a colleague said something that really surprised me. Someone had made an offhand comment that you have to take everything you see online these days with a grain of salt because of AI-generated content. One has to be skeptical because it is not always clear what is real or not. Put simply, AI is influencing how we evaluate the things we see online.
The colleague said he whole-heartedly agreed and added that AI is also influencing how we perceive things in the physical world. He shared an anecdote to illustrate. His family recently took a trip to the Grand Canyon and upon seeing the view, his 11-year-old daughter said, “Dad, it looks like AI.”
For this young girl, saying something looks like it was made by AI is another way of saying it looks “too good to be true” or “perfect”.
For thousands of years, human beings have marveled at the natural wonders of the world and seen them as a sign of a transcendent creator. Are we mo…
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