Is AI Really Going to Change Everything? Let's Find Out.
Are Scammers Using AI Voices to Impersonate Family Members? Yes. Scammers use AI voice cloning to impersonate family members in distress, demanding urgent money. The FBI recorded over 22,000 AI-related fraud complaints in 2025, with losses exceeding $893 million. Distress scams using cloned family voices alone accounted for over $5 million in reported losses. The … Read more
Why Is It Getting Harder to Know What’s Real Online? It’s getting harder to know what’s real online because generative AI tools now produce human-indistinguishable images, audio, and video at near-zero cost. Research shows humans perform only slightly better than chance at detecting AI-generated content. Meanwhile, detection tools remain unreliable, and regulatory labeling is only … Read more
Could AI Be Used to Manipulate an Election? Yes — AI is already being used to manipulate elections. Documented examples include the 2024 New Hampshire Biden robocall, Slovakia’s 2023 deepfake audio, Hungary’s 2026 AI disinformation campaign, and the 2026 NRSC deepfake of a Texas Senate candidate. However, experts say no election has yet been conclusively … Read more
Is That Photo Real or Made by AI? How to Check You can check if a photo is AI-generated by zooming in on hands, teeth, eyes, and background text for anatomical errors; examining shadows and reflections for physics violations; running the image through detection tools like AI or Not, Hive, or Sightengine; and checking for … Read more
How Can You Tell If a Video Is a Deepfake? You can spot many deepfakes by watching for unnatural blinking, mismatched lip-sync, distorted hands and ears, inconsistent lighting, and physics errors like objects appearing or disappearing. AI detection tools like NVIDIA’s Synthetic Video Detector and Sensity AI can flag fakes in milliseconds, but compression and … Read more