AI is destroying the internet. Math is our only hope.

7 min read Make preferred on Share Share this article Copy link X icon X (Twitter) LinkedIn Facebook Email Make preferred on Not long ago, AI-generated content was a parlor trick, six-fingered popes and uncanny Tom Cruise lookalikes, more amusing than alarming. That era is over. The Iran conflict proved it: synthetic footage of detained American soldiers, Iranian fighter jets screaming out of underground bunkers, decimated radar installations, all fabricated, all viral, all widely believed, reaching hundreds of millions before anyone could verify a single frame.