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Artificial intelligence grows in a speed that is miraculously considered by some and frightening by others – but there seems to be no doubt that this will increase growth rate. What started as a curious and interesting experiment with basic assignments and questions, as well as nice adaptation of classical paintings, has grown into what could become plausible in the near future a trillion dollar industry.
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It is indisputable that creating large language models such as OpenAi’s Chatgpt has cleared the way for groundbreaking developments. With chatgpt and other similar AI tools, some assignments can make a long piece of content for research and information purposes, articles, code and even images and videos.
More frightening is the ability of AI to imitate people – so good that it is sometimes indistinguishable from real flesh and blood. These deep fakes are increasingly not only becoming a simple nuisance, but a threat to national security. For example, when a deep -footed video from the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zensky, where he told his troops to surrender to Russia in the early days of the war. Discussions about banning deepfakes have been circulating for some time, but – so far – no concrete has been implemented.
AI-generated history
However, just as sinister as Deepfakes is the general role of AI in the preservation of facts. Although many consider artificial intelligence as unbiased, AI is indeed subject to the same prejudices and lies as his makers. Deekseek is an example of this. A AI tool developed by the Chinese, it will refuse to express any mention of the Tiananmen Square -Bloedbad from 1989, for example, essentially knew this incident in history. In fact, users can see the chatbot doing this before their eyes.
Although governments have been rewriting history for centuries, from burning books in the Nazi era to changing text with the Gutenberg press, AI represents a new dynamic in the sustainability with which this can be done digitally and the speed with which false information can reach people via the internet. Moreover, AI is used by many for research, depending on a reliable source of information and is increasingly being used in classrooms.
Despite these ethical worries, tech giants such as Microsoft and Amazon Web Services are ahead forward and integrate AI tools such as Deepseek in their cloud services. This means that everyone who uses his infrastructure – and that is actually the majority of people with access to the internet – will be exposed to an AI tool that will only tell the truth if it is programmed. How can we trust a biased tool to store historical information or data?
Blockchain-based solutions
It is clear that in a future in which people and AI are increasingly co-existing, we have to find a different way to maintain information, images and the most important-historical facts. A solution where this data cannot be deleted, tampered or rewritten and blockchain is the only technology that offers this solution today.
A blockchain is an unchangeable ledger where information can never be removed or changed. Each transaction or other data is stored in the blockchain forever as soon as it is included. A suitable way to maintain history in a world where records depend on the whims of politicians and other powerful individuals. This is perhaps the most noble usage scenarios for blockchain’s censorship resistance – not an attempt to avoid, but to keep.
Various companies are already working on creating blockchain-based solutions that are specially designed to maintain history and facts. This includes story, a blockchain designed to make intellectual property of writing, music, paintings or simply ideas in Tokenized assets that must be stored and even traded on the chain.
A permanent cloud
In the meantime, Arweave is a blockchain that offers a solution to store data in a decentralized cloud forever – or guaranteed for at least 200 years. This model contrasts traditional cloud services, such as Google Cloud or Amazon Web Services, which underlie the entire internet.
If you have photos or words documents stored on your Google Drive, for example, they are stored in the cloud – but this cloud storage is vulnerable to infringements, synchronization or accidentally – or deliberate – deletions. Data stored in the cloud can also be censored or deleted by a government or other authority, which places a large question mark about the idea of storing important facts of historical data “in the cloud”.
Permanent, decentralized cloud solutions eliminate all these problems. Once it has been uploaded, it will be stored forever – it cannot be tampered, removed or changed in any way. You can always say who uploaded the data and when and what the original information is in it. It is a perfect solution for information that must be stored, such as historical data.
It is also impossible to release Deepfakes as a real thing on a permanent blockchain cloud network, because it would immediately be clear who the maker of the fake video or image is. Similarly, the origin of legitimate announcements can easily be verified, so anyone would never have any doubts about the orders that a president gives to his troops in the middle of a great conflict.
Finally, this sabotage method of data storage also guarantees the origin of information, which can be incredibly important when arbitrating, “he said,” she said “debates that so often stand in the way of verifying historical facts. At a time when these facts are increasingly threatened by technology that can create lifelike deep traps of politicians and celebrities, it is time that we explore the only solution that can really retain history.
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Phil Mataras
Phil Mataras is the founder and CEO of Ar.io, the first permanent cloud network that includes a series of revolutionary decentralized web services. In contrast to the traditional cloud infrastructure, Ar.io uses the Arweave Permoweb, which offers an unchangeable, origin -driven and economically sustainable model. The innovative solutions of AR.io include decentralized storage access, domains and hosting.