AI is not our friend. Manipulating photos is nothing new, but AI has brought deceit to a new level. It's faster, and it's more convincing. Unfortunately, we've gotten to the point where we can't believe what we see or hear. Since I don't subscribe to NewScientist, I can't read the entire article, but you get the idea. If we can believe what we see and hear, we are going in a bad direction.

Deepfakes are out of control – is it too late to stop them?
AI-manipulated audio clips, images and videos have been used to harass people, scam money and influence elections, despite efforts to rein them in.
NewScientist

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Academic research is increasingly anthropomorphising technology – a trend that could mislead the public about how powerful artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge developments really are.
Myra Cheng and her colleagues at Stanford University, California, analysed the content of more than 655,000 academic publications released between May 2007 and September 2023, along with the headlines of approximately 14,000 news articles citing some of those papers. They rated the extent to which each text used human pronouns such as “he” and “she” rather than “it”, as well…
NewScientist

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Most of us had jobs at 14 or even younger. I worked in my Dad's market at age 9, ...
Life was different, life was good!!

What a beautiful childhood!!
Mark

"The increase population of the world is accelerating our Extinction"? That's weird, you just claimed that we have population growth at the time the world is supposedly warming up due to human activity. So if the warming of the globe is causing the Extinction of humans, than why is the growth of the population accelerating as the world is warming up? You do realize that more people die from extreme cold weather than extreme hot weather right? Not only that, as the world is supposedly warming up the Earth is getting greener. There's also no real pushback on science when it comes to this issue, it's a pushback on the g****l w*****g cultist religion being pushed down our throats.

"Being shoved down our throats" is one of the perceptions I alluded to. You're reading and watching the viewpoints that push only that narrative. Try a more balanced approach

I'm with Klickitatdave, specifically his comments: "On the other hand CEOs of corporations that contribute to the deterioration of the global environment are getting richer every year...Sad to say this does not bode well for the future of humankind."

With the pushback against science, the constant referencing of global weather history - which doesn't take into account that we are now more than eight billion humans - and the willingness of humans to soil our planet in pursuit of money and power, I've concluded that as a species, we are accelerating our own extinction.