I've spent the past twenty years building systems and products that process and organize information. Throughout all of that, I've been operating on the assumption that the information environment, for all its messiness, remains a place where truth has some structural advantage over falsehood. I'm no longer confident that assumption holds.
In the first two weeks of the Iran conflict, the The New York Times identified more than 110 AI-generated deepfakes. One Iranian campaign alone generated 145 million views. And this isn't coming from one direction. AI has changed the economics of deception. Falsehood is now cheaper, faster, and more scalable than truth. A new piece on my Substack: https://lnkd.in/d5TSvQT2