Article raised interesting questions but suggested no answers.
To the extent there's a technical fix to this problem of mass gaslighting, surely it's cryptography.
Specifically, the domain name system and TLS certificates, functioning on the web-of-trust principle. It's already up and running. It's good enough to lock down money, so it should be enough to suggest whether a video is legit.
We decide which entities are trustworthy (say: reuters.com, cbc.ca), they vouch for the veracity of all their content, and the rest we assume is fake slop. Done.
To the extent there's a technical fix to this problem of mass gaslighting, surely it's cryptography.
Specifically, the domain name system and TLS certificates, functioning on the web-of-trust principle. It's already up and running. It's good enough to lock down money, so it should be enough to suggest whether a video is legit.
We decide which entities are trustworthy (say: reuters.com, cbc.ca), they vouch for the veracity of all their content, and the rest we assume is fake slop. Done.