# AI Reality: When Your Feed Isn't the World

> How social media algorithms and AI reshape reality before we notice
- Title: AI Reality: When Your Feed Isn't the World · Dallas Express
- Summary: How social media algorithms and AI reshape reality before we notice We construct reality through choices, not just technology
- Keywords: algorithms, social media, generative ai, cognitive offloading, dallas express, nfl, seahawks, seattle, news, politics, Reality, Feed
- Source: Dallas Express — https://dallasexpress.com/health/are-we-building-our-own-matrix-red-pill-blue-pill-or-ai
- Author: Dallas Express
- Published: 2026-09-26T14:00:05+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: ai, algorithms, social media, generative ai, cognitive offloading, dallas express, nfl, seahawks, seattle, news, politics
## Trump's AI Terminology Shift
President Trump proposed replacing 'artificial intelligence' with 'super intelligence' during UN speeches

> The United States totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme of control for the Artificial Intelligence being spoken of so much now
## The Matrix Without Machines
Smartphones and algorithms now shape reality through personalized feeds and AI-generated content
## Gorilla in Our Midst
People miss 30% of real-world events when focused on digital distractions

> The gorilla may still be walking across the screen. We may simply be looking somewhere else
## Your Feed Isn't Neutral
Two neighbors can see completely different realities on social media platforms

> One sees crime. Another sees puppies.
## AI-Edited History
Generative AI can alter photographs before they enter digital archives

> Someone can disappear from a photograph. A face can be changed.
## MIT Study on False Memories
AI-edited images create 2.05 times more false memories than control groups

> Participants exposed to ai generated videos made from ai edited images produced 2.05 times as many false memories
## Dallas AI Adoption
Dallas ISD uses AI for student writing feedback while raising literacy concerns

> Dallas ISD has incorporated ai tools designed to give students immediate feedback on writing
## Cognitive Offloading
People transfer mental tasks to technology rather than performing them independently
## Historical Reality Shift
Photographs have become editable through generative ai tools

> A photograph once helped people remember what happened. Now, under some circumstances, an artificial photograph may help someone remember something that did not
## The Red Pill Question
There's no simple choice between reality and simulation

> Real life offers no such clean choice. There is no red pill capable of switching off algorithms
## Human Reality Filters
We've always edited reality through culture and belief, not just technology

> Human beings have always interpreted reality through culture, memory, language, experience and belief
## AI's Role in Dallas
Dallas political campaigns use ai chatbots and deepfakes in elections

> Democrat Collin Allred's campaign website featured an ai chatbot designed to answer voter questions
## The Gorilla Problem
People overlook 30% of real-world events when focused on digital distractions

> The gorilla may still be walking across the screen. We may simply be looking somewhere else
## AI Reality Question
How will we recognize truth when it walks directly in front of us?
## Key takeaway

We construct reality through choices, not just technology