Under the Impact of"Universal Generation":How the Mechanism of Truth Disclosure is Restructured
The emergence of Sora,hailed as the"simulator of the physical world,"marks yet another groundbreaking shift in the information landscape.Leveraging Transformer and Diffusion models,Sora fosters extensive interaction between humans/society and intelligent generative models.The"Generative videos"produced by the general public through Sora surpass deepfakes in both scale and detection difficulty,underscoring its potentially disruptive role as an"iterative universal version"of deepfakes concerning media authenticity.Equipped with"billion-parameter"learning units,Sora redefines gatekeeping dynamics.Traditional gatekeepers,including news media,platforms,and the public,operating within existing governance structures,not only struggle to maintain"living functional orderliness"by mitigating external uncertainty and ensuring information coherence but also inadvertently contribute to the disorderliness of the information ecosystem.In this evolving technological milieu,there arises a pressing need for timely adjustments and advancements in gatekeeping theory.Against this backdrop,gatekeeping must be reconceptualized as the process of forging meaningful connections between news reality and the public,as well as the broader societal context.The extent to which gatekeeping theory can transcend the mere metaphor of"action"and return to its ontological significance in serving social functions directly correlates with its theoretical and practical relevance in the era of generative artificial intelligence.