How AI is Making it Harder to Distinguish Reality from Fiction
Every winter, many families revive a familiar ritual. Children rush to find a small elf that supposedly watched them overnight and moved before morning. The hunt is part of the excitement. As children grow older, that excitement often turns into doubt, with questions about whether the elf is magic or simply a parental story. Recently, new technology has given this tradition a modern upgrade. Parents can now use AI to create videos showing the elf moving after dark. These realistic clips blur imagination and reality. The same tools are reshaping social media and other spaces, making it harder to tell what is real. That growing uncertainty presents serious challenges for…