Fake news, generated AI and the future of “reality”

Truth, Trust, Technology, and a World You Can’t Quite Verify

We’re entering a time where seeing is no longer believing. AI can generate voices, faces, videos, articles—and entire narratives—almost indistinguishable from reality. When everything can be fabricated perfectly, what happens to truth, trust, and our shared sense of what’s real?
This isn’t a media literacy workshop or a tech lecture. It’s a philosophical conversation about reality itself in an age of artificial generation.

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Topics we’ll touch on:

• When AI can fake anything, does “truth” still exist in a meaningful way?
• Deepfakes, synthetic news, and the erosion of shared facts
• Is reality becoming personalized—different for each of us?
• Who decides what is real: humans, algorithms, platforms, or states?
• Can democracy survive without a common understanding of truth?
• Are we heading toward radical skepticism—or digital authoritarianism?
• And finally… how do we live well when certainty itself starts to dissolve?

Casual discussion. No technical background needed. Just curiosity, openness, and a willingness to question what you think you know. Whether you feel worried, intrigued, or strangely detached from it all—you’re not alone.
Let’s question the images, the stories—and maybe even our own assumptions about reality.