Trust But Trace
Centuries before AI, scholars in Mecca, Jerusalem, and Lhasa built defenses against falsehood. Muslim jurists traced each hadith through an isnad, weighing every name in the chain. Jewish rabbis recorded who said what and when, so truth carried the mark of its teacher. Tibetan monks memorized lineages linking words to the Buddha himself. They knew that ideas severed from origin lose their meaning. The same wisdom applies to our digital world, where deepfakes blur sight and chatbots blend fact with invention. Time magazine latest story on how the ancient principle can help us spot AI fakes:
StyleGAN2 (AI), This Person Does Not Exist example, 2022. Public domain. Wikimedia Commons.