Is That True?: Discerning Truth in an Age of Deception

Have we entered an era where AI programs, like xAI’s Grok 4,

combined with Quantum Computing power, have made it impossible to discern truth

and reality from their sophisticated creations, clever deceptions and outright

forgeries?

Have many prominent members of the traditional media

succumbed to political interference in their honest presentation of the

news?

Has absolute truth suffered a fatal wound with the forceful

advent of subjective truth into every area of life?

What can we really believe in this age of clever deception?



In their new book, Is That True? Discerning Truth in

an Age of Deception, authors Larry Willard and Chuck

Stephens team up to confront the confusion on these topics and 24 major

issues that are prevalent in today’s public space and media news. In Parts I

and II, Larry tackles how media news evolved from reporting news to what has

now become a type of infotainment, with many obscuring the issues of truth with

intentional mixes of partisan political deceptions. He then takes a hard look

at the capabilities of AI artificial intelligence when married to quantum

computing, noting where it is going and asks if there is a danger that it may

lead us into artificial truth, with the inability to discern what is real, and

deliver the tool for a powerful form of cultural slavery, without proper

built-in safeguards and regulations.