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These are the stories we will discuss, and we also address some of your questions.

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I'm your co-host, Scott Ray.

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Scott, this story jumped out to me because it was more in a podcast dialogue on the

opinion podcast as part of the New York Times.

And they're really talking about how 2025 seemed to be the year where the ability to tell

between truth and fiction is gone with

artificial intelligence. So it's like we've moved into a 2.0 with artificial intelligence

where the original rules don't work anymore. So I'm just going to what some of the people

say here and maybe confuse their names,

but make the point of the article.

One of the writers says, the scariest element of all this isn't just when things that are funny

are too funny, but the manipulation of hugely consequential world events,

an ability to trust what we're seeing in the news is actually news.

Like fake images of Maduro's capture in Venezuela, people using AI images to try to identify

ICE agents. We're going to talk about Iran. One of the things that people certainly in the world who've thought about

digital space and social world are pretty much agreeing about is that this is not a problem

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