When Seeing and Hearing Is No Longer Believing

How do you define "real"?

How do we know that anything we "see" falls under the category of "real" at all?

Recent advances in filtering of human faces, and in A.I. generated images, text (chatGPT, for example) and even artificially-generated human faces have blown away thousands of years of observations and assumptions about the world we live in.

Have we reached the point where technology is indistinguishable from magic?

Can we still meaningfully distinguish reality from the work of artificial intelligence and machine learning?

Can we still count our own lives as authentic and meaningful?

Yes, I think we still can, but these recent developments are game changers in our perception, and things are only growing in complexity from here. 

In response, thanks in part to social media distorting our perceptions of reality, the expectations for standards of beauty and human behavior have shifted significantly -- and these developments loom darkly over the potential for a version of Frankenstein's monster to hijack society and redirect in unexpected or undesired ways.

Please help us to share and reach people with this and other work. "Liking", "sharing" and "subscribing" may or may not remain meaningful in this skewed, rigged, perception-altering digital sphere of life -- but your viewership, your thoughts, your feedback, your support, etc. -- those things remain invaluable and cannot be counterfeited.

And together, we can make some kind of difference; we still feel it, even when we get down. In light of that revaluation, we appreciate it all the more. Thank you.

 When Seeing and Hearing Is No Longer Believing 

https://youtu.be/n4k4VIzNjVg 

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Thank you all for your love and support! Our work depends upon you -- and we pledge our authenticity and hand-crafted effort to do the best we can to shine a light in this dimming world.

We love you; stay tuned;  much more on the way. 

In Liberty,

Aaron and Mel