When anything can look real, how do we still know what happened?
Synthetic images, cloned voices, fabricated video, and industrial-scale text can now arrive with the emotional force of evidence. Yet the deeper danger is not only that people will believe what is false. It is that genuine evidence can be denied, witnesses can be made permanently disputable, and ordinary people can be forced to authenticate reality while under pressure.
In When Reality Becomes Negotiable, G B Edlin examines what shared reality requires when appearance becomes cheap: evidence, testimony, memory, provenance, verification, institutional trust, and the courage to revise without surrendering judgment.
Clear, rigorous, humane, and deeply practical, this book shows how to:
• distinguish an asset's authenticity from the truth of the claim attached to it;
• understand face, voice, image, text, memory, and the liar's dividend;
• address fraud, non-consensual intimate imagery, law, journalism, elections, and crisis communication;
• evaluate detectors, labels, watermarking, and Content Credentials without overclaiming them;
• preserve originals, document custody, corroborate independently, and communicate uncertainty precisely;
• protect targets, witnesses, legitimate anonymity, expression, and appeal; and
• apply a complete Reality Integrity Assessment, worked incident review, professional protocols, case studies, scenarios, maturity model, board review, and twenty-four reality-preserving design patterns.
This is not a counsel of cynicism and not a promise of perfect detection. It is a professional guide to building trust without naivety—and preserving a world in which people can disagree while remaining answerable to the same reality.
Book 7 of The Borrowed Mind, a twelve-volume exploration of human agency in the age of artificial intelligence.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. When anything can look real, how do we still know what happened? Synthetic images, cloned voices, fabricated video, and industrial-scale text can now arrive with the emotional force of evidence. Yet the deeper danger is not only that people will believe what is false. It is that genuine evidence can be denied, witnesses can be made permanently disputable, and ordinary people can be forced to authenticate reality while under pressure. In When Reality Becomes Negotiable, G B Edlin examines what shared reality requires when appearance becomes cheap: evidence, testimony, memory, provenance, verification, institutional trust, and the courage to revise without surrendering judgment. Clear, rigorous, humane, and deeply practical, this book shows how to: - distinguish an asset's authenticity from the truth of the claim attached to it;- understand face, voice, image, text, memory, and the liar's dividend;- address fraud, non-consensual intimate imagery, law, journalism, elections, and crisis communication;- evaluate detectors, labels, watermarking, and Content Credentials without overclaiming them;- preserve originals, document custody, corroborate independently, and communicate uncertainty precisely;- protect targets, witnesses, legitimate anonymity, expression, and appeal; and- apply a complete Reality Integrity Assessment, worked incident review, professional protocols, case studies, scenarios, maturity model, board review, and twenty-four reality-preserving design patterns. This is not a counsel of cynicism and not a promise of perfect detection. It is a professional guide to building trust without naivety-and preserving a world in which people can disagree while remaining answerable to the same reality. Book 7 of The Borrowed Mind, a twelve-volume exploration of human agency in the age of artificial intelligence. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798170656462
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - When anything can look real, how do we still know what happened Synthetic images, cloned voices, fabricated video, and industrial-scale text can now arrive with the emotional force of evidence. Yet the deeper danger is not only that people will believe what is false. It is that genuine evidence can be denied, witnesses can be made permanently disputable, and ordinary people can be forced to authenticate reality while under pressure. In When Reality Becomes Negotiable, G B Edlin examines what shared reality requires when appearance becomes cheap: evidence, testimony, memory, provenance, verification, institutional trust, and the courage to revise without surrendering judgment. Clear, rigorous, humane, and deeply practical, this book shows how to: - distinguish an asset's authenticity from the truth of the claim attached to it;- understand face, voice, image, text, memory, and the liar's dividend;- address fraud, non-consensual intimate imagery, law, journalism, elections, and crisis communication;- evaluate detectors, labels, watermarking, and Content Credentials without overclaiming them;- preserve originals, document custody, corroborate independently, and communicate uncertainty precisely;- protect targets, witnesses, legitimate anonymity, expression, and appeal; and>This is not a counsel of cynicism and not a promise of perfect detection. It is a professional guide to building trust without naivety-and preserving a world in which people can disagree while remaining answerable to the same reality. Book 7 of The Borrowed Mind, a twelve-volume exploration of human agency in the age of artificial intelligence. Seller Inventory # 9798170656462
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. When anything can look real, how do we still know what happened? Synthetic images, cloned voices, fabricated video, and industrial-scale text can now arrive with the emotional force of evidence. Yet the deeper danger is not only that people will believe what is false. It is that genuine evidence can be denied, witnesses can be made permanently disputable, and ordinary people can be forced to authenticate reality while under pressure. In When Reality Becomes Negotiable, G B Edlin examines what shared reality requires when appearance becomes cheap: evidence, testimony, memory, provenance, verification, institutional trust, and the courage to revise without surrendering judgment. Clear, rigorous, humane, and deeply practical, this book shows how to: - distinguish an asset's authenticity from the truth of the claim attached to it;- understand face, voice, image, text, memory, and the liar's dividend;- address fraud, non-consensual intimate imagery, law, journalism, elections, and crisis communication;- evaluate detectors, labels, watermarking, and Content Credentials without overclaiming them;- preserve originals, document custody, corroborate independently, and communicate uncertainty precisely;- protect targets, witnesses, legitimate anonymity, expression, and appeal; and- apply a complete Reality Integrity Assessment, worked incident review, professional protocols, case studies, scenarios, maturity model, board review, and twenty-four reality-preserving design patterns. This is not a counsel of cynicism and not a promise of perfect detection. It is a professional guide to building trust without naivety-and preserving a world in which people can disagree while remaining answerable to the same reality. Book 7 of The Borrowed Mind, a twelve-volume exploration of human agency in the age of artificial intelligence. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798170656462
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