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Truth Under Machine Conditions
The debate about artificial intelligence and truth often focuses on hallucinations, deepfakes, disinformation, and incorrect source citations. These problems are real, but they do not go far enough. Truth is not merely a property of individual statements. Truth emerges in social, institutional, and epistemic practices: through source verification, testimony, dispute, correction, scientific replication, editorial responsibility, judicial proceedings, public deliberation, and time for scrutiny. This article develops the concept of a truth ecology as an analytical category for AI governance. AI changes truth ecologies not only when it produces false content, but already when it transforms research into answer formats, smooths over uncertainty, obscures source hierarchies, simulates authority, and replaces institutional review processes with plausible syntheses. Drawing on generative search, scientific work, journalism, public administration, and public communication, the article shows that AI-related risks to truth must not be understood solely as problems of content, facts, or detection. The central question is not merely whether an AI answer is correct, but whether the social conditions under which truth can be verified, corrected, and made publicly robust are preserved at all.
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Editorially reviewed association in the Journal-11 pilot.
Editorially reviewed association in the Journal-11 pilot.
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