[sebosp]

I'm old and I sympathize with your last sentence, I _imagine_ certain reinforced paths through repeated experience are myelin covered so much as to be almost static. But if I think of generations growing up, their brains aren't reinforced/seasoned enough to spot these "Wait... What?" moments in online content that is almost sensical but not quite. In a world with ever increasing AI hallucinated content, when children absorb fake content and build strong paths in their brains, at some point the words/meaning could be so distorted that you cannot understand anymore the person in front of you? I think of the political landscape where we have similar problems, social media algorithms curate content to keep you entertained within subjects A and B, and you have a community with shared values and you are seasoned and share its language domain. How would the landscape look like when the net can be bombarded by content that appears to be true, valid and useful but it really is not, for young generations? Also if somebody can paint the right myoline picture in my head (not plausible text generation but science) I would really appreciate it.

[getwiththeprog]

I think that an answer to finding a 'true' reality on the net comes back to the centuries old dicipline of philosophy. The world has been full of 'garbage-thought' for ever. I might suggest that there is less 'garbage-thought' now for those that wish it than there ever has been.

The AI-Voice revolution leads us instead to the problem of authority, and of imitation of authority. Too many of us take it as given that an authority has the truth.

The AI-Voice / AI-Content revolution allows low quality actors to imitate relevant authorities.

So, to address your question, we need to study philosophy in schools, so that kids learn to think for themselves.