A16Z Brags That Its AI Is Great for Poisoning the Internet With Fake Tech History
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If even demo use cases celebrate plausible-but-false content, the default information environment tilts further toward noise. Brands and enterprises should assume any “historical” or expert-looking media can be synthetic and invest in provenance, internal knowledge bases, and media literacy for their own channels.
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