160: Empire of Lies (w/Sofia Cherici & Jan Zabka)
Conspirituality
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The Book of Velis
Claimed Norwegian photojournalist Jonas Bendickson used 3D software to insert people and bears into the photos. He then fed real news stories by journalists covering fake news revelations of 2016 into an open source AI text generator, which in turn wrote the 5,000 word introduction to his deceptive book. The photographer eventually had to break the real news himself on what he had been up to by holding a press conference. A hoax deliberately created to foster conversation about both the disinformation crisis and how easily we are fooled by technology.
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