The Death Of The Internet?
🔍 Key insights
AI Can Fool Millions Instantly – One surreal kangaroo clip got 48 million views in a day, and almost no one realized it was fake.
The Feed Is Losing Its Credibility – With deepfakes, cloned voices, AI-generated influencers, and sludge videos, we are reaching a point where truth and fiction feel indistinguishable.
The Internet's Future Is Still Ours to Shape – Whether we end up in an AI-powered renaissance or a swamp of confusion depends on the choices we make—what we share, trust, and value.
📚 Go deeper
🎥 Related videos:
Yuval Noah Harari: How to safeguard your mind in the age of junk information – Harari warns that humans can’t survive in AI’s nonstop information cycles and urges strict limits on our digital intake.
The AI Dilemma – Tristan Harris & Aza Raskin (Center for Humane Tech) – On how runaway AI could derail trust, democracy, and the mind.
It’s Getting Harder to Spot a Deep Fake Video – Explains deepfakes technically and how hard it is to spot them.
📖 Further reading:
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr – A look at how the internet rewires our brains, and why trust, depth, and focus are slipping.
Yuval Noah Harari on AI and “Fake Humans” (The Guardian, 2023) – A warning about the collapse of informational trust and democracy.
💡 Think for Yourself
When you see something online that moves you, do you stop to ask: “Is this authentic?” Or have those instincts dulled?
If almost everything in your digital life could be faked, what beliefs or relationships could still feel real?
☁️ Thought Experiment
Imagine waking up in 2030. Your entire digital world — messages, videos, music, even your face in a friend’s post — is generated by AI. Nothing is false. But nothing is wholly real either. What happens to your sense of self?
Cheers,
Kevin