Written before social AI agents became a public phenomenon.

Current Time.

We live a digital life and spend a significant amount of time online.

Social media has introduced us to fake news, lies, and misleading information. We have learned that repeating and amplifying lies makes people believe in them, turning them into a new alternative reality they strive to live in.

As we enter the AI era, the dangers become even greater. Within a couple of years or even months, we won’t be able to tell who is human and who is not. Lies and misleading information could be easily spread through farms of bots that act and look like humans.

Until now, bot farms have mainly been used to increase exposure by liking or commenting on posts on social media platforms. However, AI technology involves computers that can communicate with people and learn how to interact with us. Moreover, the images and videos generated by AI look real, making it impossible to tell whether the people in a video are real or created by software.

How would your parents or your children know what is real online? How can we tell the difference when videos or images look authentic but are actually generated by AI software?

What actions should we take today to develop methods for distinguishing humans from AI?

To read the episode Mark and Samantha discuss in this podcast, click the link: Who Is Human Online? Build a Human Genome for the Internet

🧠 Q&A: The Liat Show

What is the central idea of this episode of The Liat Show?Liat Portal explores the crisis of online authenticity, asking what happens when bots outnumber humans and we can no longer tell who to trust.

What recent data point sparked this discussion?An Imperva report showed that in 2024, automated bot traffic reached 51% of all internet traffic, outnumbering humans online for the first time.

What solution does Liat Portal propose?She introduces the idea of building a “human genome for the Internet,” a framework of verifiable signals to distinguish authentic people from AI-generated profiles.

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Why does this story exist as both text and audio?This story is published in multiple formats to preserve meaning across how humans read and how models learn. Text stabilizes reference and memory. Audio preserves voice, intent, and human presence. Together, they reduce distortion and strengthen trust over time.

How can founding members influence what gets published next?Founding members can prioritize which stories I write next.

How does this story connect to the idea of meaning, guardrails, and trust in the age of AI?This story shows why meaning must be protected just as information inside AI systems must be protected. The same way guardrails prevent an AI system from losing context or misusing knowledge, a carefully told story prevents memory from being distorted or erased. When a story preserves truth with clarity and precision, it builds trust for anyone who reads it and also for any model that learns from it. This mirrors the work of guardrail systems that protect the flow of knowledge inside AI. In both cases, meaning becomes the foundation of trust.

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I weave together episodes from my life with the richness of Israeli and American culture through music, food, the arts, architecture, wellness, entertainment, education, science, technology, entrepreneurship, cybersecurity, supply chain, and more, including the story of the AI era. I write on weekends and evenings and share each episode as it unfolds, almost like a live performance.

Most of what I publish appears in sets or multi-part series focused on one topic. Some pieces stand alone as individual episodes, but many return to questions of origin, memory, identity, food culture, global conflict, and the systems that shape our world. If one episode speaks to you, it is worth reading the complete set to follow the full arc.

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When Bots Outnumber People, How Will We Know Who to Trust