How to Tell What's Real in the Land of the (Deep) Fakes
With increasing CGI and Deep Fake Technology, How Will We Know What's Real?
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As the conversation around ChatGPT, AI, and more continues to circulate, one of the topics sliding under the radar is the topic of deep fakes. The issue of deep fakes is one that, from what I’ve seen, the only solution being thrown out there is “regulation.” Check out the caption to this Instagram video:
From what we know, regulation could mean something like having a government ID to search the internet, as we’re seeing with registered users on Twitter, but how does this stop deep fake technology? I have no idea - just another way data collection, but I digress. We’re just being told that regulation is the only thing needed to save us from the world of increasingly deep fake technology.
This is a valid concern because how will we know if what we see on our screens is real? How will we know if events occurred, or are we seeing CGI being used? In today’s article, I will offer two simple solutions that have withstood the test of time. And so, as we move forward into this CGI, deep fake reality, let’s first take a step back as to how we got here, where we could be going, and what we can do about it.
Deceiving the Masses
In 2022, I took James Corbett’s (
) Six-Hour course on the topic of “Media.” It was an eye-opening course because it showed just how much our current way of living differs from the earlier humans before technology. In our media-centered world, 99% of our information comes from a screen-based device, utterly different from what our ancestors had as early as 500 years ago.500 years ago, in the 1500s, you were exposed to what you experienced for yourself or what you heard from someone at the local tavern - and that was it. But today, in our technological era, much of the information we receive about the world doesn’t come from directly experienced events but rather from what’s shown to us on screen and in images.
PS: I’d argue that this shift in the human species, from experiencing reality directly to now experiencing it through screens, has led to an unforeseen consequence. I encourage everyone to read my article, Our Oculacentric Society because it shows how experiencing reality in this way is destroying our psyche, which we’re seeing with the mental health pandemic.
Recommended Reading: Our Ocularcentric Society
Take September 11th as a prime example. This was a ginormous world event, but when we look at this event from an unorthodox view, we see things a little differently.
For example, in New York, at the time the towers fell down, there were probably, let’s say, 10,000 people who were physically in the city, watching the buildings come down. Yet, billions of us worldwide saw the planes hit the tower. We weren’t there, but we “saw” the planes hit the towers.
PS: I use quotations around the word “saw” because there was live footage of people who saw the towers falling down who stated they heard bombs going off and never saw any planes. However, their experiences are different than ours because we, through the screens, “saw” the planes hit the towers.
If we simply look at the numbers of things, we see that 10,000 experienced the actual event, yet 6,000,000,000 of us “saw” the event. Essentially, only 0.00000166666% actually experienced the event firsthand.
However, we’re not going to sit here and question the events of 9/11, would we? We have the official reports, and yes, yes, we know that two planes hit the two towers, and building seven fell on its own, and we’re just going to keep on going, and so forth and so on.
But this does raise a question. How would we know if we were experiencing a deep fake CGI event on a larger scale?
We’ll All Be Deceived
Sure, these events like 9/11 and the moon landing occurred the way they did because we have the official reports, right? But how can we eliminate the fact that in the future (because we know it couldn’t have occurred in the past [insert sarcasm here]), deep fake and CGI won’t be used on us?
We know that regulation is going to be proposed as a huge “saving grace” here, but aside from regulation, is there any other way that we can tell the difference between what’s real and what’s potentially fake?
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The answer is no.
We won’t.
Sorry for the long dramatic draw out of the conclusion, but the fact of the matter is that we will not be able to tell the difference between what’s real and what’s fake from these screen-based devices. That’s what these devices are. These are simply devices that transmit images, and all we do is consume these images and take from them what they show us.
Now, of course, we can rely on regulation because we can rest assured that if we see, for example, an alien invasion occurs, with footage and everything, as long as it’s the “official” report, we can trust it. But yet, at its core, we won’t be able to decipher what’s real vs. what’s fake. So, ultimately, where do we go from here?
PS: I discuss Aliens here because Project Blue Bean is a proposed Alien Invasion that has been discussed for some time, but the technology has been unavailable until now. So, if you see or hear an alien invasion shortly, especially since that’s somewhat impossible on a stationary, level plane, you’ll now know why.
Recommended Reading: The Spirituality of Flat Earth.
Two Time Tested Solutions
Before the invention of the television, this device that broadcasted (which has a metaphysical, occult aspect to it, i.e., “broad-casting,” or “cast a spell broadly”) millions of images (and experiences) in front of our eyes, we had our brains.
PS: Check out my analysis of Brave New World and 1984 to see how other “metaphysical aspects of reality” just happened to find their way to “affect” the general public.
Recommended Reading: The Brave New World of 1984, Part One. (Huxley and Orwell, The Magicians).
Our brains deciphered the images of the outside world and our immediate reality. And so, sorry to offer a super simple solution to this highly complex technological problem, but we’re going to have to go back to trusting our brains and bodies on what actually happened. This is solution one.
If it didn’t directly happen to us, it doesn’t concern us. There’s no way that we will be able to authenticate the images we’re seeing on our devices to determine if they’re real or not. Even if they’re official reports, we still wouldn’t know if they were CGI deep fakes or not. So, the simplest solution is to adopt the mindset of “mind your fucking business.” (please excuse the vulgar). If it didn’t happen to you directly, you don’t need to worry about it.
Recommended Reading: 4 reasons to stop watching the news.
When I tell everyone about this solution, one of the pushbacks I get is, “Well, how will I stay informed about what happens in the world?”
Well, for one, if you read my article, 4 reasons to stop watching the news, you’ll see that 99% of things you don’t need to be informed about. It has absolutely no bearing on what you’ll do today, where you’ll work, what clothes you’ll wear, etc. Absolutely nothing. So you don’t need it.
But two, let’s ask ourselves this: How did the ancient humans stay informed? Easy, they spoke to their neighbors. They found out what was occurring in the kingdom by attending the local taverns and hearing the stories from those old drunken sailors (probably deciphering the truth from the exaggerated fallacies). Still, community involvement was how they got informed about what would truly affect them and their daily lives. Again, sorry to bring forward so simple solutions, but that’s what we see as the solution here.
PS: Civil Engagement was the one area where immediate decline was apparent when the TV was introduced on a wide scale. Neil Postman’s work, “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” is often highly referenced regarding this topic.
By simply 1) limiting the images we intake from our screen-based devices and 2) having conversations with our friends and families in real life, in the real world, we can get a true and accurate sense of what’s occurring in our reality. This is critical because as the technologies of deep fake and CGI get even better, it may be even more challenging for us to trust what we see with our own eyes due to the technologies of holograms. Thankfully, we’re not there yet, but the more we become aware of these technologies and know how to stand against them, humanity again has another chance to survive.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Let’s open our mind’s eyes and begin to see things for what they truly are.
Ashe.
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Thank you for bringing up what people in New York actually saw on 9/11. Since the nose of a plane is badly dented if it flies into a flock of birds we know, or should know, that a plane can't possibly fly into a building. The plane would be smashed and barely penetrate if at all. And there is some old video floating around that was shown on a news cast , then removed, that had a plane flying into tower and coming out the otherside. We have been lied to about a whole lot of shit for years. If we could think back on assassination of John Kennedy for example, we'd questioon all the official stories immediately. We'd have never fallen for the whole scamdemic. And yes we need to talk to people face to face.Engage with real living beings.
i think we witnessed how easily the masses are swayed by tv images and talking points during the plandemic. i cannot imagine the population control deep-state cgi will attain. we must be able to define for ourselves the difference between what you believe and what you know - because those are two very different things.