Hany Farid

So I think there's this sort of bigger story here that we have slowly but surely started to erode our ability to trust each other, trust organizations, trust the media, trust anybody.

And that feels to me like a death blow to a society.

There's two reasons for it.

One is what I just enumerated.

We can't respond if we don't agree on basic facts.

But the other one is how do you regain trust once you've lost it?

You don't.

That's the problem because you need to believe in the media.

You need to believe in the experts.

You need to trust your government.

And if you don't have that, how do you regain it?

And now you have the mother of all chicken and egg problems.

So what's so fascinating to me as a technologist about the Internet was that it was designed to democratize access to knowledge and information.

And it did, but it didn't distinguish between good information and bad information.

And arguably, the bad information overrides the good information by a big margin.

And I think we are repeating exactly the same mistakes with this AI generation because what are AI models?

They're trained on the Internet.

The Internet is a cesspool.

Trash in, trash out, right?

And so I worry that...