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How to prepare for our fake future

We were promised jetpacks and food pills. Instead technology is bringing us a world where anything can be faked.

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Mike Elgan
Aug 21, 1984
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“I accept!” And with those two words, former president Donald Trump demonstrated a looming crisis — the technology-driven world where the fake hits like the real.

The post was a retweet on Trump’s verbally ironic “Truth Social” showing two real photograph of one woman wearing a “Swifties for Trump” t-shirt, and many fake images: 1) Taylor Swift as Uncle…

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