Everything feels "fake" now
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AI images. Deepfakes. Echo chambers. Weird movies. Everything feels "fake" now.
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Thanks to @ThomasFlight and @LikeStoriesofOld for talking to me about movies.
→ Sources
https://www.vice.com/en/article/gal-gadot-fake-ai-porn/
‘Deepfakes and the History of Faked Photography’: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebate/deepfakes-and-the-history-of-faked-photography/
‘Deepfakes and the Epistemic Backstop’: https://philpapers.org/archive/RINDAT.pdf
‘Associations between TikTok facial filter use and body image variables’: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1740144525000282?via%3Dihub
‘Everyone is gambling and no one is better off:’ https://kyla.substack.com/p/everyone-is-gambling-and-no-one-is
‘The vibecession:’ https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-vibecession-the-self-fulfilling
Echo chambers and epistemic bubbles: https://philpapers.org/rec/NGUECA
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/how-good-are-humans-at-detecting-ai-generated-images-learnings-from-an-experiment/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12779810/#Sec39
https://cacm.acm.org/research/as-good-as-a-coin-toss-human-detection-of-ai-generated-content/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12140714/
https://academic.oup.com/asjopenforum/article/doi/10.1093/asjof/ojad081/7257978?login=false
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/17/nx-s1-5672615/kalshi-polymarket-prediction-market-boom-traders-slang-glossary
→ Chapters
00:00 Everything Feels "Fake"
01:44 The Case of the Fake Grandpa
06:41 Photography and Testimony
10:37 Sora
16:13 Art Doesn't Feel Real Anymore
30:19 Making Ourselves Look Fake
35:45 The Vibecession
42:17 Media Bubbles Close description
AI images. Deepfakes. Echo chambers. Weird movies. Everything feels "fake" now.
Read my newsletter (and join my book club!): https://jaredhenderson.substack.com
Find me on Twitter: https://x.com/jhendersonYT
And on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jaredhenderson.bsky.social
Thanks to @ThomasFlight and @LikeStoriesofOld for talking to me about movies.
→ Sources
https://www.vice.com/en/article/gal-gadot-fake-ai-porn/
‘Deepfakes and the History of Faked Photography’: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebate/deepfakes-and-the-history-of-faked-photography/
‘Deepfakes and the Epistemic Backstop’: https://philpapers.org/archive/RINDAT.pdf
‘Associations between TikTok facial filter use and body image variables’: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1740144525000282?via%3Dihub
‘Everyone is gambling and no one is better off:’ https://kyla.substack.com/p/everyone-is-gambling-and-no-one-is
‘The vibecession:’ https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-vibecession-the-self-fulfilling
Echo chambers and epistemic bubbles: https://philpapers.org/rec/NGUECA
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/how-good-are-humans-at-detecting-ai-generated-images-learnings-from-an-experiment/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12779810/#Sec39
https://cacm.acm.org/research/as-good-as-a-coin-toss-human-detection-of-ai-generated-content/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12140714/
https://academic.oup.com/asjopenforum/article/doi/10.1093/asjof/ojad081/7257978?login=false
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/17/nx-s1-5672615/kalshi-polymarket-prediction-market-boom-traders-slang-glossary
→ Chapters
00:00 Everything Feels "Fake"
01:44 The Case of the Fake Grandpa
06:41 Photography and Testimony
10:37 Sora
16:13 Art Doesn't Feel Real Anymore
30:19 Making Ourselves Look Fake
35:45 The Vibecession
42:17 Media Bubbles Close description