Welcome to the Era of ‘Deep Doubt’

People can now more credibly claim that real events did not happen and suggest that documentary evidence was fabricated using AI tools.

The rise of deep-learning technology has made it increasingly easy for people to craft false or modified pictures, audio, text, or video that appear to be non-synthesized organic media.

Deep doubt is skepticism of real media that stems from the existence of generative AI .

Deep Doubt as “ The Liar’s Dividend ” is a new term, but it's not a new idea.

The erosion of trust in online information from synthetic media extends back to the origins of deepfakes themselves.

The authors of a paper called “ Deep Fakes: A Looming Challenge for Privacy, Democracy , and National Security ” warn.

In the near future, well-crafted synthesized digital media artifacts will be indistinguishable from human-created ones.

That means there may be no reliable automated way to determine if a convincingly created media artifact was human- or machine-generated solely by looking at one piece of media in isolation.

In some ways, the age of deep doubt stretches back into deep history.