A few months ago, I saw this shadow in my home…or rather this play of light. It was there, just like that on my floor, the result of pure chance. This photo has not been edited, manipulated or even given a special effect to create or amplify the shape. In other words, I did not touch the objects in the room to form this shadow (even if I cannot prove it)
It is a photo is simple but authentic and it reflects a truth, a reality of a moment. A moment where the chance of lights has chosen to form a heart…
This photo will not create a buzz because it is too simple, not spectacular enough, not exceptional enough, not violent enough, not abject enough or even not stupid enough... But This photo has the immense advantage of being true, of being authentic…and it is not the result of manipulation or optical editing… None of that, just the chance of the right moment! No doubt if I had passed by a few minutes later, the shape would have changed…
Fake news or fake content are all the rage on the internet!
It's the complete opposite of what's currently working on the internet: falsehood, manipulation of reality, transformation of the truth...Fake news, a bogus thing, fake content, spreads 6 to 7 times faster on the internet. This has been proven for many years...
All this for what? A fleeting moment of digital glory? A moment of glory that most authors will not even benefit from financially. It is social networks that collect the bulk of the profits from buzz. As a result, you are, we are, only their digital slaves version 2.0. But what does the Court of Human Rights think about it? Not much because we don't attack GAFA so easily!
Distorting digital reality, this has existed for a while via photon filters, a boon for influencers and especially for influences whose business is often based on deception. But since access to generative artificial intelligence for all, the possibility of distorting reality has exploded!
Cheating and manipulation were obviously not born with the internet, but they have become much more accessible... Do you think that trolls would talk like they do on the internet in front of a real person at a coffee shop with a real risk of getting a real slap? In addition to deception, social networks and the social internet also boost cowardice…
But why is this a problem?
Because obviously that diminishes the value of what is true, what is real, what is authentic! In short, something that is not manipulated or false!
Except that, well, social media algorithms have some very little to do with truth, with reality. Even if in their official press releases, they claim the opposite and fight against… they lie, they lie to you. All algorithms want is to keep your brain connected to their tools as long as possible. Some people talked at the time about brain time available to sell ads on TV. Do you remember?
So between a true austere reality and a false fantasized reality the algorithm will quickly have made its choice: he will push forward the lie…
And there, it will quickly become dangerous since falsehood, lies, corruption will come before truth, facts and honesty.
Truth and reality are therefore no longer popular on social networks where honesty no longer pays.
My mother told me:
“Christopher, if you lie too often, no one will believe you when you tell the truth.”
You have to believe that the developers of the algorithms of Social Networks and Artificial Intelligences did not have a mother as caring as mine?
"In a world where everyone cheats, it is the real man who appears as a charlatan."
How to distinguish cheating behind a screen when you don't have all the game parameters in hand?
And Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said that we do not could well see that with his heart. How to see a manipulated reality with your heart and distorted through a screen?
Do we want a society of lies and falsehood?
Company where transgression of reality will be more rewarded than facts, than reality and human creativity? Making humans, in effect, more and more…useless…
It is time to at least ask ourselves the question: do we want to tolerate a society of lies and manipulation where intellectual corruption will pay more than honesty and human work?
If we accept it, for convenience and the search for easy profit, dark times, very dark times, await the majority of the human population... times already imagined by many authors of societal anticipation!
To meditate…