What Happens When AI Tells a Lie?

In the bleak corporate building protagonist Winston is charged with "editing inaccurate accounts" of people and events in old newspapers. Early on, however, Winston confides in the reader that he knows the inaccuracies are not inaccurate at all; rather, they were correct at the time and have recently become unfavorable in the eyes of the political oligarchy known as The Party. Winston laments his role in affecting the past and, in turn, the shared memory of the populace. One day he muses to his lover Julia "Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."