Key Points
While questioning the authenticity of digital content stretches back decadesand analog media long before thateasy access to tools that generate convincing fake content has led to a new wave of liars using AI-generated scenes to deny real documentary evidence..
Deep doubt is skepticism of real media that stems from the existence of generative AI..
Citron and Robert Chesney foresaw this trend years ago, coining the term "liar's dividend: in 2019 to describe the consequence of deep doubt: deepfakes being weaponized by liars to discredit authentic evidence..
Deepfakes may lead to scenarios where the prevalence of AI-generated content could create widespread doubt about the authenticity of real events that took place in historyperhaps another manifestation of deep doubt..
And while AI and deepfakes have dramatically accelerated the issue, bringing us to this new deep-doubt era, the necessity of finding reliable sources of information about events you didn't witness firsthand is as old as history itself...
