The air of war brings out the best in us.
The best fears, the best strategies, the best ways to save our skins.
Anxiety about the unknown has its own extended research literature and there could have been no better incubator than the Covid-19.
However, the recent world developments are far more concerning.
We are not ready for nuclear battles. We don’t want to be annihilated. Nevertheless, social media is the battlefield we love being on.
It’s assumedly safe. No one is killing us there. We think posting the worst or AI-based destructive information there is safe. Aside from this being war strategy, users thinking they are ‘safe’ click on those share buttons like crazy.
Encryption may have been the forte of previous wars, misinformation may as well be the forte of any that start today. And it worries me.
It worries me because misinformation has no morality. It has no line it can not cross. It does not run a fair race. It thinks all is fair in war and war. It can mould itself and has the uncanny ability to look like the truth. Much like a narcissist it will snigger in the corner, laughing at times at the misfortune it creates.
Unfortunately there is no technology to fully catch its mischief- because let’s face it, AI is building its database on present info. And if there is misinformation, well…. 🤷
This might be just me having tech-based anxieties after reading conflicting news on X, but when technology starts becoming a massive tool in a bigger fight, I think we should be concerned.
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