"Mal-information, Mis-information, and Dis-information are similar to the intent continuum's distinction between pre-meditated murder vs manslaughter and is now the greatest short-term threat to humanity according to the World Economic Forum" - Dennis Yap to the ADA Judges
Girls with No-Face tattoos from the movie Spirited Away might tell us more than what we know about the Zeitgeist of the age: GenAI and the attention economy. Before AI Seer invented Facticity.AI or the World Economic Forum ranked Mis-information and Dis-information as the top short-term risk again in 2025, the @Rhine Ruhr Center for Science Communication Research asked, "Disinformation, media fragmentation, instrumentalization of science – how can the facticity crisis be countered?" The agency of every human from now on might be bound by the Facticities of No-Face platforms seeking to idolize themselves as god-like AGIs and monopolize all the money, data, and attention that can be captured.
Humanity lives in a poly-crisis earth but not necessarily all humans are bound to this reality. Unprecedented connectivity and creativity coexist with anonymity and anomie. With the rise of the attention economy and social media (now only limited by the energy capacity of our planet due to GenAI), attention as an input is no longer limited by organic intelligence. Posts written by artificial intelligence can rise to the top of Reddit and artificially generated content may slowly consume more human attention than content wholly generated and managed by intelligences by, for, and of physical bodies. What started as a relatively level playing field in Web 1.0, when the Founder of Facticity.AI interacted with some of the earliest LISTSERVs and owned an mIRC Galaxynet channel that sometimes had hundreds of people is no longer within any individual or community’s control and is feeding the poly-crisis of those who will be left behind on earth, perhaps not unlike the people stuck as No-Faces in the world of "Ready Player One". Current enforcement of copyright sunders the previously high facticity ratings of human creativity (high facticity and low facticity is a distinction between the sudden and shocking and the slow and non-apparent respectively by @jonas kaiser) and low facticity ratings of mimicry by GenAI. Low facticity's gradual and non-apparent crises like climate change can be easily eclipsed by sudden and shockingly high-facticity ones like incumbent governments losing. This is just as GenAI threatens to render human individuality slowly into commoditizable data products and the inequality of facticity in this shift could vary greatly across the ideological spectrum. The attention economy might have already been growing to meet the needs of the attention economy before GenAI as read about in some of the secret strategies people use to get to the top of Product Hunt but creativity was still uniquely sourced from humans.
Accepting this thrownness (“Geworfenheit”) of contemporary Facticity, what is the human agency to transcend their egos (“La Transcendance de l'Ego”) and abilities in this time and place as ever more replaceable ordinary human beings? What if GenAI could be harnessed to augment human capacity to seek and find the truth rather than trying to compete with the ever more scarce resources of this planet and insatiable demands of its intelligences for more attention? What if everyone could be empowered to analyze, factcheck, and counter misinformation and disinformation almost in real-time as it was being produced and consumed? On this journey to actualize himself, the founder of Facticity.AI worked for some of the most accomplished and iconic startup founders but was petrified and stupefied by the factual, even illogical errors that they casually made on podcasts in the year 2024 which was also the year that it became possible to factcheck any English transcribed video on YouTube by inputting the link into www.Facticity.AI. Suppose one suspects there is any authority figure or celebrity they put on a pedestal who seems to be going beyond their “believability weighting” on a subject matter. Viewers can now spontaneously interact with their videos through Facticity.AI and see if that adds more contrarian value than their hosts or followers. This creates a second and more objective voice in between listening to understand and absorbing to mimic a celebrated speaker who may be delusional. If this second voice dissents or expresses doubt, maybe users can find their own voice in the synthesis that results without becoming a No-Face follower in the cacophony of Web2 platforms. Both the Billionaires on the Left who claim that the Lucky Sperm Club and the Right who claim that Pure Skill (of determinate optimism) is all that matters, are removing either unchoosable circumstances or free will from the equation.
Both are wrong as this is a false dichotomy between Facticity and Transcendence. No-Face appears to be transformed into a reliable agent relating reasonably to humans when scaffolded within Zeniba’s classical structures and similarly, LLMS can be constrained. Facticity.AI which contains the wildness of LLMs and Search can help us check untruths before they become powerful, whether the source is human or artificial intelligence, but also help us finetune our hypotheses even in fields beyond our expertise and save ourselves from losing face. By putting the power of fact-checking hours of factual claims within easy reach of every consumer of information in almost real-time, it also enables a new type of hero - first responders to misinformation and disinformation (even ahead of community notes) which travels faster than real and good information.