By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/08/2026*If* you could trust your government's expert agencies and *if* they had reliable systems for making their findings known; *if* your bank was banned from engaging in conduct indistinguishable from phishing. 36/ 1614
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/08/2026*If* the health-care and criminal justice systems *never* forced the people they ensnared to call their relatives and beg for money, then deepfakes would have a much harder time penetrating our cognitive immune systems. 37/ 1824
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/08/2026It's not so much that AI is a powerful way of lying - rather, we have been made progressively more vulnerable to lies for decades, leaving us at an epistemic death's door, and AI has arrived to deliver the coup de grace. eof/ 315922
