Fake faces, stolen voices, false stories: Can we still trust what we see online?

For decades, people have been holding on to the idea that seeing is believing. Photographs were believed to be the evidence of something happening, videos were believed to be the proof of something, and the known voice on a phone call would prove a person’s identity. However, nowadays, these notions seem to lose their reliability. Artificial intelligence (AI) can produce videos of individuals saying things that they never said, can produce voices using a brief audio recording, and can produce photos of things that did not happen.In times when news spreads all over the world in seconds, differentiating the truth from the fiction becomes a difficult task. Videos shared via WhatsApp, voice messages from family members, and posts on the Internet featuring a famous political leader might be authentic, but they are fake.This is not just a problem of modern technology.