Another thoughtfull piece by Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)
"It'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."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/20/epistemic-void/#expert-agencies
#Lies #AI
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