AI fakes grant everyone full deniability: 'it wasn't me, it was AI'
adamamcbride · x · 2026-10-20
Adam McBride builds on a viral take — the real AI horror movie isn't evil robots, it's AI being so good that everything you've ever said or done digitally could be real when leaked — with a darker corollary: since any image or video can be faked, everyone now has full deniability. Dick pics? Wasn't me, AI. Sex tape? That's AI slop.
Core argument: when everything can be faked, no one believes anything — AI doesn't just fabricate falsehoods, it destroys the credibility of real evidence, an epistemological collapse of trust.
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