Forget ChatGPT. At a time when the Internet is ablaze with the wonders of artificial intelligence, at least one content-rich on-line site is challenging conventional wisdom. In its regular blog posts, AtlantisRising.com (formerly Atlantis Rising Magazine, “magazine of record for ancient mysteries, future science, and the unexplained”) is taking the novel and counter-intuitive step of certifying that it publishes only authentic, ‘humanly-written’, content, and is labeling its stories accordingly.
Just as “healthy” food is marketed as, ‘free from artificial ingredients’, Atlantis Rising claims that, no matter how much popular AI-produced content, may resemble the real thing, it remains only a facsimile. Educated readers won’t be fooled. The reasons are complicated but, according to Doug Kenyon, AR’s long-time editor, “notwithstanding advanced machine learning, hyper language modeling, etc., the kind of personal insights that come from someone who still has skin in the game, can’t be duplicated by any mere computer or network.” What passes as the equivalent of genuine human intelligence is as unsatisfactory to the consumer as cheap white wine.
Long before Ancient Apocalypse, and other currently trending media with similar subject matter, there was Atlantis Rising Magazine, distributed for many years on newsstands internationally by Curtis circulation. The Atlantis Rising Research Group web site remains a visible brand on the internet with registered U.S. trademark and a small but loyal band of followers.
The site’s web-site archives still contain most of the content from 135 published issues, including hundreds of original, well-researched, well-written, authoritative, and profusely illustrated articles, along with many books which the magazine has also produced. PDFs and other related products and videos can be purchased for download on line at AtlantisRising.com.
Ghosts of Atlantis, the recent 436-page book by Atlantis Rising editor J. Douglas Kenyon, is published by Inner Traditions/Simon & Schuster.
Technologies of the Gods, one of the magazine’s original live action one-hour documentaries has drawn over a million viewings on platforms around the world. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXZr16VJg1s).
Additional documentaries include: Clash of the Geniuses and English Sacred Sites
