Book angle
The manuscript treats this as more dangerous than deepfakes themselves. The damaging event is not the fake image; it is the evaporation of the evidentiary privilege of the real one.
Why now
This is now a core political risk, a media risk, and a product design risk.
Chapter references
- Chapter 4 - The Last Shared Reality
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