Luckily for you, The i Paper is a reputable newspaper, written and edited by real people. But in the time it’s taken me to research and write this, AI could have churned out hundreds of articles.
Earlier this year, hundreds of people turned out for a Halloween parade in Dublin which simply didn’t exist. According to The Independent, the event had been dreamed up by a AI-generated website based in Pakistan that was farming clicks for advertisement revenue.
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Read MoreThe motivation behind these wild fake images is simple: Facebook has a creator programme that pays users who generate engagement. And this stuff sometimes does get hundreds of thousands of likes, most probably from bots, but some will also be credulous users who really do believe they’re looking at a giant cockerel made of garlic.
A few hours later, he tweeted “Friends tell me that this photo of Bono with an Israeli flag is fake. I hope it is. For his sake. [It would help if he made a statement]”.
We’re all going to find ourselves fooled at some point, as the models improve. In some cases, the machines already know us better than we know ourselves.
What’s fascinating is that their model didn’t involve speaking to any actual voters, it was all simply worked out on a server. The pair created “synthetic voters” using only demographics and predictive modelling. The result is hundreds of thousands of imagined people who in aggregate behave almost identically to real people.
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Read MoreThat means you’ll be able to tell your AI to book a haircut and the AI will read through your calendar to find the hairdresser you normally use, call the salon’s phone number, and use a text-to-speech voice to book you a slot when you have a spare hour. In a live demonstration of exactly this process at Google, the woman at the other end of the salon phone didn’t even realise she was talking to an AI.
I think we’ll look back at 2025 as the year the internet as we know it died. The solution is to seek out information from places that we know we can trust. Places like, um, the website you’re on right now.
Gus Carter is The Spectator’s deputy features editor
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