Speaker 1: Escape to a river resort. While we often talk about
Speaker 1: the fact that you shouldn't fall for fake news or
Speaker 1: different things that are floating around social media, that you
Speaker 1: always have to research. Living in this new technology age
Speaker 1: in which we can't even trust our eyes anymore, there
Speaker 1: are AI images out there that look pretty real. You
Speaker 1: have to have a lot of sympathy for people that
Speaker 1: do fall for this and start to share images, because
Speaker 1: when you look at them, they seem very real. When
Speaker 1: you look at them, they seem like it's something somebody
Speaker 1: actually took a photograph of, But the reality is it
Speaker 1: is purely AI generated. We saw this after the hurricanes
Speaker 1: devastated Tennessee and the Carolinas and there was those mass flooding.
Speaker 1: There was this picture of a little girl with a
Speaker 1: puppy in a boat, flood waters all around, tears in
Speaker 1: her eyes. It was a very powerful image. When you
Speaker 1: looked at it, you saw something that instantly evoked an
Speaker 1: emotion in you. You felt for this little girl, You
Speaker 1: felt for this little puppy. But it wasn't real. But
Speaker 1: it was shared all over social media. It was shared
Speaker 1: all over because people saw it and then invoked that reaction.
Speaker 1: We were already feeling bad for the victims. You see
Speaker 1: something like that that reinforces it. You instantly share it,
Speaker 1: and it looks so real on its surface. But when
Speaker 1: you take a deeper look at it and you realize
Speaker 1: that on one hand, the girl had but three fingers
Speaker 1: and on the other hand she had six fingers, that's
Speaker 1: when you realize that maybe this photo's not real. But
Speaker 1: so much of this is happening nowadays, and we're living
Speaker 1: in a frightening time to where we're so easily misled,
Speaker 1: and we're misled through technology. There is now technology that
Speaker 1: can emulate anyone's voice. So you may hear an audio
Speaker 1: clip that tells you that your favorite politician, your favorite
Speaker 1: sports hero, whatever it is, you hear with your own ears,
Speaker 1: this person saying the most horrific things imaginable. You hear it,
Speaker 1: so you believe it. Then you find out that was
Speaker 1: AI generated. He never said that a computer emulated his
Speaker 1: voice and said it. When we watch things, and we're
Speaker 1: sitting here in this new technology world where we're seeing
Speaker 1: advancements and artificial intelligence, we have to question more things
Speaker 1: than we ever have before. We have to look at
Speaker 1: things and actually do research before we buy into anything.
Speaker 1: I know that's hard, especially in our busy lives, but
Speaker 1: when we have social media and everybody wants to be
Speaker 1: the first to share something. Look, I'm not throwing out
Speaker 1: a stone inch you and saying that you're wrong for
Speaker 1: wanting to be the first to share something. I do
Speaker 1: see something and want to be the first to get
Speaker 1: that information out there, especially if it's something I can
Speaker 1: put on the right sides page that will generate more
Speaker 1: attention to the program. So we have that urge that's
Speaker 1: human nature. But now, unless I know it's accurate, I
Speaker 1: am less likely to share it. I am less likely
Speaker 1: to put something out there without some type of verification.
Speaker 1: Where do we get that verification from? Especially in today's
Speaker 1: day and age, where we have a hard time trusting
Speaker 1: our mainstream news media. Where do we get that verification
Speaker 1: when those who were supposed to be the ones who
Speaker 1: were bringing us the factual news are in fact bringing
Speaker 1: spend themselves. We've talked about it already, how they have
Speaker 1: edited certain interviews to try to help candidates of their choice.
Speaker 1: We've talked about it before. How the news media will
Speaker 1: put out a false story that they know is false
Speaker 1: because it aids the person they want or it harms
Speaker 1: the person they dislike. So again, in this new age,
Speaker 1: where are we supposed to find our comfort to know
Speaker 1: that these images, that these sounds, these things that we're
Speaker 1: coming across, how do we know that they're real? Yes,
Speaker 1: I want people to think before they post, think before
Speaker 1: they share certain things on social media, but also have
Speaker 1: a lot a lot of sympathy for them, especially some
Speaker 1: of our older friends who are on social media who
Speaker 1: are quick to run. One of the things that I
Speaker 1: find more frustrating than somebody sharing a fake AI generated
Speaker 1: picture or a story from a less than incredible source
Speaker 1: are the self righteous people that want to jump on
Speaker 1: them and condemn them. Maybe they have more time on
Speaker 1: their hands, maybe they've already seen that it's fake. That's fine,
Speaker 1: tell them hey, look I think that's an AI generated photo.
Speaker 1: Maybe even private message them. But too many people want
Speaker 1: to go on there and shame people for sharing this stuff,
Speaker 1: knowing full well that they're just one post away from
Speaker 1: being fooled themselves. These self righteous people, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: are some of the worst. They might actually be worse
Speaker 1: than the people sharing the false information, the AI generated information,
Speaker 1: because again, they want to look down on them older
Speaker 1: folks are going to have a harder time understanding some
Speaker 1: of this new technology. There's going to come a day
Speaker 1: where you and I are going to have a harder
Speaker 1: time understanding the new technology. They're trusting their eyes. They
Speaker 1: see a photo, they believe it to be real because
Speaker 1: they can see it. They hear something with their own ears,
Speaker 1: they hear it, so therefore they think they can believe it.
Speaker 1: They don't understand this technology. So maybe before you jump
Speaker 1: on them and start to try to shame them for
Speaker 1: sharing something that you already know to be false, maybe
Speaker 1: you try to help them, because again, it is a
Speaker 1: scary new world, and you, my friend, are also just
Speaker 1: one post away from putting out your own bit of
Speaker 1: false information. This has been Morning Coffee with the Right Side,
Speaker 1: and I'm your host, Jack Fairchilds and we're a part
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