A New Year!

2026 - Who'da thunk? It's a New Year! When I was much, much younger, I never thought I'd see 2000 nevermind 2026. I mean, in 2000 I'd be almost 40... who lives that long (thought 18 year old me)? Dang, was I young-stupid, or what?!

So since it's a holiday, here's an interesting article and some fun stuff!

A recent article on the BBC about spotting AI videos was pretty good. I like the conclusion about treating videos like one treats text.

You'd never look at a piece of text and assume it's true just because someone wrote it down. If there's any question, you go investigate the source of the information. Videos and images used to be different, because they were harder to fake and manipulate. That's over now. The only thing that matters now is where a piece of content came from, who posted it, what the context is and whether it's been verified by a trustworthy source. The question is when (or if) we're all going to wrap our heads around that fact.