#6 Some researchers used AI to "plant" memories in people. What they actually did was use AI to change some scenes in movies and people would later swear they remembered the AI movie as what they originally saw. One doesn't need AI to necessarily plant false memories in people. Back when Sarah Palin was running for VP she said, "You can see Russia from parts of Alaska". Tina Fey, portraying Sarah, said, "You can see Russia from my house". I still occasionaly get someone who believes Sarah Palin said it. Here is another example. A bit of purported dialog purportedly taken from a Tonight Show appearance by actor Lee Marvin with host Johnny Carson holds that Marvin and Bob Keeshan, the latter to become famous as long-time children's television host Captain Kangaroo, were World War II veterans who fought together at the battle for Iwo Jima in the Pacific theater. That account does have some elements of truth to it, but although actor Lee Marvin was a guest on that late-night talk show at least seven times during Carson's tenure as host, most of what is included in that account is outright fiction or a transcript based on someone's badly flawed memory:
Dialog from a Tonight Show ... Johnny Carson ... His guest was Lee Marvin.
Johnny said ... "Lee, I'll bet a lot of people are unaware that you were a Marine in the initial landing at Iwo Jima ... and that during the course of that action you earned the Navy Cross and were severely wounded."
And you know how Lee was ... "Yeah, yeah ... I got shot square in the ass and they gave me the Cross for securing a hot spot about halfway up Suribachi. Bad thing about getting shot up on a mountain is guys gettin' shot hauling you down. But Johnny at Iwo I served under the bravest man I ever knew ... We both got the Cross the same day but what he did for his Cross made mine look cheap in comparison. The dumb bastard actually stood up on Red Beach and directed his troops to move forward and get the hell off the beach. That Sgt. and I have been life long friends ... When they brought me off Suribachi we passed the Sgt. and he lit a smoke and passed it to me lying on my belly on the litter ... "Where'd they get you Lee?".... "Well Bob ... if you make it home before me, tell Mom to sell the outhouse."
"Johnny, I'm not lying ... Sgt. Keeshan was the bravest man I ever Knew — Bob Keeshan ... You and the world know him as Captain Kangaroo." Lee Marvin was wounded on Saipan and sent back to the U.S. Bob Keeshan, later famous as television's "Captain Kangaroo," also enlisted in the U.S. Marines, but he did so too late to see any action during World War II. Keeshan was born on 27 June 1927 and enlisted two weeks before his 18th birthday, several months after the fighting at Iwo Jima. In a 1997 interview, Keeshan explained that he "enlisted in the U.S. Marines but saw no combat" because he signed up "just before we dropped the atom bomb." I have since been told by several people they saw that episode of Johnny Carson. It's complete fiction that people believe because they saw Lee Marvin on Johnny Carson and superimposed the fake account on their memories. Some people are very easy to manipulate. |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]