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The collapse of shared reality: trust in a world where anyone can be faked
11 min
As convincing fakes of voices, faces, and video become trivial, what happens to evidence, journalism, courts, and democracy when we can no longer assume what we see is real.
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Show notes
The Liar’s Dividend allows public figures to dismiss authentic recordings as artificial intelligence fabrications.
Human ability to detect deepfake faces is currently only slightly better than chance.
A Minnesota woman served eight months in jail because of evidence from fabricated text messages.
Camera manufacturers like Sony and Nikon are integrating cryptographic signatures directly into hardware sensors.
Social media platforms often break the chain of custody by stripping metadata from uploaded files.
Interactive deepfakes have successfully tricked employees into transferring millions of dollars to fraudulent accounts.
In this episode
- 1Intro1 min
- 2The Liar’s Dividend and the Death of the Smoking Gun3 min
- 3The Courtroom Crisis: Rule 707 and the Deepfake Defense3 min
- 4Provenance vs. Detection: The New Trust Infrastructure3 min
- 5The Erosion of Shared Reality2 min
- 6Outro1 min
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