future generations will have no idea what was real and what was not.

Gary Marcus warns that, with increasingly sophisticated generative‑AI tools, future generations may struggle to tell what is real from what is fabricated. Matt Stoller adds that generative AI will transform society in ways that are hard to anticipate but does not explicitly predict this confusion. The statement on generative AI attributed to Abraham Lincoln in the post is incorrect.

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-08-03