Who is creating your Reality?

As the volume of AI-generated content expands at exponential speed, the proportion of content created by real humans is steadily shrinking.

With generative AI spreading like wildfire—producing content not only at the hands of users but also through automated processes—we are entering a phase where even the question “What is true?” becomes increasingly hard to answer.

Take, for instance, polarizing topics such as presidential elections, vaccines, or climate change. Each of these is now deeply entangled with layers of content we cannot reliably trace back to a human source. Some of it is written with intention, some shaped by bias, and a growing share produced by generative algorithms — optimized not for truth, but for engagement, reach, and repetition.

But this shift has deeper implications.

The Snowball Effect of Synthetic Content

The training data available to current and future AI models is our digital reality. And increasingly, this training data includes content generated by other AIs.

This creates a recursive feedback loop:

• More artificial content → becomes training data

• More training data → generates more synthetic content

• Each new cycle → further dilutes the original human signal

In the pursuit of competition, influence, or profit, entire narratives may be crafted—consciously or not—that distort our understanding of real-world events. These narratives, when consumed and reproduced at scale, are absorbed into the next generation of AI models. And so, fiction starts to feel like consensus.

When Truth Becomes a Byproduct

In a world where we educate, inform, and orient ourselves through digital platforms, one has to ask:
Whose voice is shaping the content you consume? Whose version of reality are you being taught to believe?

We may be approaching a future where both our hopes and fears are cultivated by artificial narratives—curated not by truth-seekers, but by algorithms tuned for attention and engagement.
A future where perception is gamed, and belief is modeled.

Much like the prisoners in Plato’s cave, will we mistake the shadows on the wall for reality?