Ontology is the philosophical discipline that seeks to discover what entities constitute reality. However, we must always keep in mind the ontological limitations of generative Artificial Intelligence: it cannot and will never be able to generate a single real image, as photography does. No authentic photo or video reports from a war front will be able to be generated by Artificial Intelligence, which is only capable of creating synthetic images, however lifelike, but still false.
Even when invited to express itself with a person’s ideas, or to reproduce a voice or face, this striking imitation can never be called real.
The AI-generated reality in this sense is a synthetic world, in a sense a fake world.
It is a huge limitation for phenomenal AI, which radically weakens it, making it a colossus with feet of clay.
This ontological limitation should be interpreted correctly: when it comes to creating new content or new products, the generative capacity of AI and automation can play a crucial and positive role. But the plane of the real-authentic, must always be distinguished from that of the artificial-virtual, both when it comes to things and, more importantly, people.
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