World of artifice gains strength as deepfakes, AI reign
NEW DELHI : Every time a year departs, it leaves us with some questions and some answers. But 2023 seems to be an exception. This year, there were fewer answers than questions.
Not unexpectedly, Merriam Webster and the Cambridge Dictionary both discovered something similar in their studies. The most searched word this year according to the Cambridge Dictionary was “hallucinate"; Merriam Webster, in turn, found “authentic" to be the most searched word of the year. Our world, which is riddled with ambiguity, is in desperate need of authenticity.
In 2016, this tendency became widely known. That year, Oxford Dictionary found “post-truth" to be the most searched word. Those were the days of Donald Trump’s ascension to power in America.
What he was saying and doing caused outrage among intellectuals around the world. Questions were being raised everywhere about how this man, who had been voted to the highest position in the globe, was behaving. The Oxford Dictionary defined post-truth as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief".
Lies have since maintained their attempt to smear the truth. Needless to say, society always wishes to walk with the truth, but politicians, businesspeople, and courtiers have been entangling it in unfathomable debates. Let us quickly flip the pages of our country’s history.
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