As AI creates fake media, maintaining historical truth grows harder
• A.I. can now create convincing fake media like deepfakes that could manipulate events and history • The same A.I. that fakes current events can fake past historical events by generating false documents • There are historical examples of powerful groups manipulating records and erasing people to rewrite history • False documents like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the Zinoviev Letter impacted politics and fueled antisemitism • As A.I. generates false historical content, it will be increasingly difficult to maintain a shared truth about the past