TOK Skill: Recognize real life situations xing questions about knowledge.
Here, philosopher Regina Rini considers how a private citizen recently altered a clip of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to make her appear drunk and uploaded the fake video to Facebook. More and better quality 'deepfakes' will appear, she warns, "depict[ing] people doing things they've never done." We human beings tend to believe what our eyes and ears tell us; but with the rise of technological manipulation, we must now acknowledge that video evidence need not "capture roughly what you would have seen with your own eyes." She argues that, when we see video, we should ask immediately: who produced it? Consequently, we should expect journalists to expose fakers and thank them for doing so, even when it strikes us as harsh 'doxxing'.
Which of the following past TOK Prescribed Titles would YOU choose to pair with this article? Why?
May 2015 #5: "Ways of knowing are a check on our instinctive judgments." To what extent do you agree with this statement?
November 2016 #4: "Error is as valuable as accuracy in the production of knowledge." To what extent is this the case in two areas of knowledge?
May 2017 #4: "In the production of knowledge, traditions of areas of knowledge offer correctives for ways of knowing." To what extent do you agree with this statement?
November 2017 #3: "Over time, knowledge has become more accurate." Discuss this statement with reference to two areas of knowledge.
May 2018 #5: "The quality of knowledge produced by an academic discipline is directly proportional to the duration of the historical development of that discipline." Explore this claim with reference to two disciplines.
Works Cited:
Rini, Regina. "Deepfakes Are Coming. We Can No Longer Believe What We See." June 10,
2019 in The Stone (a forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues
both timely and timeless) of The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/opinion/deepfake-pelosi-video.html
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