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Artificial intelligence increases at a rate considered wonderful by some and scary by others – but it does not seem to be a question that this growth rate will increase. What started as a curious and interesting experience with basic orders and questions, as well as funny retouching of conventional paintings, has become what could become an industry of a dollars Billion in the foreseeable future.
It is indisputable that the creation of large -language models like Openai’s chatpt has paved the way for revolutionary developments. With chatgpt and other similar AI tools, some commands can create long content for research and information, articles, code and even images and videos.
More terrifying, however, is the ability of AI to imitate humans – although it is sometimes indistinguishable from real flesh and blood. These Faked Deepfakes are becoming more and more a simple nuisance but a threat to national security. For example, when a video created in depth of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky where he told his troops to go to Russia in the first days of the war. Discussions on the prohibition of Deeppl Fakes have been circulated for some time, but – so far, concrete has been not implemented.
History generated by AI
However, just as sinister as Deepfakes is Deepfakes, the global role of AI in preserving the facts. Indeed, while many consider artificial intelligence as impartial, AI is subject to the same biases and lies as its creators. Deekseek illustrates this. An AI tool developed by the Chinese, he will refuse to pronounce any mention of the Massacre of the Tiananmen square in 1989, for example, essentially erasing this incident of history. In fact, users can watch the chatbot do this before their eyes.
While governments have rewritten history for centuries, from burning books in the Nazi era to change text with the Gutenberg press, AI represents a new dynamic in the permanence with which it can be done digitally and the speed at which false information can reach people via the Internet. In addition, AI is used by many for research, rested as a reliable source of information and is increasingly used in classrooms.
Despite these ethical concerns, however, technology giants like Microsoft and Amazon Web Services are ahead and integrate AI like Deepseek in their cloud services. This means that anyone uses its infrastructure – and it is essentially the majority of people with internet access – will be exposed to an AI tool that will only say the truth if it is programmed. How can we trust a biased tool to preserve historical information or data?
Blockchain -based solutions
It is clear that in the future where humans and AI coexist more and more with each other, we must find another way of preserving information, images and, above all, historical facts. A solution where this data cannot be erased, falsified or rewritten – and blockchain is the only technology that provides this solution today.
A blockchain is an unchanging book where information can never be deleted or modified. Any transaction or other data is stored in the blockchain forever once saved. An appropriate way of preserving history in a world where files depend on the whims of politicians and other powerful individuals. These are perhaps the most noble use cases for the resistance to censorship of the blockchain – not an attempt to escape, but to preserve.
Several companies are already working on the creation of blockchain -based solutions specially designed to preserve history and facts. This includes history, a blockchain designed to transform the intellectual property of writing, music, paintings or simply active ideas in tokenized to store and even exchange at home.
A permanent cloud
Meanwhile, Arweave is a blockchain that offers a solution to store data in a decentralized cloud forever – or for at least 200 years, guaranteed. This model contrasts traditional cloud services, such as Google Cloud or Amazon Web Services, which underlie the entire Internet.
If you have photos or Word documents stored on your Google Drive, for example, they are stored in the cloud – but this cloud storage is vulnerable to violations, the synchronization of problems or accidental or deliberate elimination. Data stored in the cloud can also be censored or deleted by a government or other authority, which puts a big question point on the idea of storing any important fact of historical data “in the cloud”.
Permanent and decentralized cloud solutions eliminate all these problems. Once it is downloaded, it is stored forever – it cannot be falsified, deleted or modified in any way. You can always say who has downloaded the data and when and what is the original information contained therein. It is a perfect solution for information that must be preserved, such as historical recordings.
It is also impossible to pass Deepfakes as a real thing on a network of permanent blockchain clouds, because is immediately clear which is the creator of the false video or the image. Likewise, the origin of legitimate announcements could be easily verified, so never again would no one have doubts about the orders that president gives to his troops in the midst of a major conflict.
Finally, this data alteration storage method also guarantees the origin of information, which can be incredibly important to arbitrate “he said, she said” debates which are preparing so often to check the historical facts. At a time when these facts are increasingly threatened by technology that can create lots of politicians and celebrities, it is time that we explore the only solution that can really preserve history.
