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Sign up for Private Internet Access today: https://piavpn.com/JaredHenderson 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