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
Jack @jacktheedom.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Great read. Further watching: Adam Curtis' HyperNormalisation m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7T... Might be an interesting watch, 10 years after it was released, especially now that AI is in the mix.m.youtube.comHypernormalisation | Full Documentary | Adam CurtisYouTube video by Adam Curtis Documentaries 000
Kyrian @foxtoy.gay · 21/08/2026The optimistic future I see for tech is one that solves exactly this problem. And I see it doing so by giving people the tools we need to manage the interactions between human trust & information. We need a public knowledge graph, distributed & collaborative, but where you own the subset you trust. 120
James Woodfield @jameswoodfield.bsky.social · 21/08/2026“..A people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please." - Hannah Arendt 0195
