Counterfeit People
Two sentences typed into an AI video tool produced a rooftop fight between Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise that millions of people couldn't tell was fake. In a controlled study at UC San Diego, people judged GPT-4.5 to be the human 73 percent of the time.
This episode follows that capability out of Hollywood and into everything else: what happens to trust, to consensus, and to elections when anyone can manufacture a person, a crowd or a reality, and who ends up holding the controls.
In this episode:
The speed you're not seeing
What I can do, and what that means
The low-tech version
The capability nobody's reckoning with
The authoritarian toolkit
The guardrails come down
The insider bet
The end of shared reality
Read the full essay, with every source linked: https://read.wireframenews.com/p/counterfeit-people
Narrated in an AI voice built from mine; the reporting and writing are mine.
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