AI Video Is Rewiring How We Perceive Reality

OK weird vibes here.

I spent 10 minutes watching AI generated videos on Sora. Then I turned on a real show. You know, with real humans?

Even when watching the real humans, my brain starts to think it's fake.

It's not just provenance of the visual that we need to worry about. It's like AI video is changing how our brains view images.

Think about what's happening here. We're training our pattern recognition on synthetic content. Hours of scrolling through AI-generated perfection. Every frame optimized. Every movement calculated.

Then you switch to actual humans and something feels... off.

The lighting isn't perfect. The movements have that organic randomness. The faces aren't symmetrical. Your brain, freshly calibrated on AI content, starts flagging reality as suspicious.

We spent decades worrying about deepfakes fooling us into thinking fake things are real. Nobody warned us about the inverse—that exposure to AI content would make us doubt authentic footage.

This is deeper than blockchain verification solving. We're not just losing the ability to verify truth. We're losing the instinct to recognize it.

When everything perfect becomes the baseline, imperfection becomes suspect. When synthetic becomes normal, authentic feels fake.

The scariest part? I caught myself doing it. Twenty years in tech, fully aware of what's happening, and my brain still got hijacked in 10 minutes.

Blockchain can timestamp reality. But what happens when our brains can't process it anymore?