28/10/2026
👁️ Is seeing still believing?
🦿In the age of AI, the line between reality and fiction is blurring faster than ever.
Deepfakes aren’t just a technological marvel; they are a direct challenge to our democracy and freedom of expression. If we can no longer tell what is true, do we lose our “epistemic agency” our very capacity to form independent beliefs? As Hannah Arendt warned, the mass distortion of truth opens the door to totalitarianism.
❓But here is the twist: are all deepfakes actually malicious? Or do some of them deserve legal protection in virtue of being genuine products of expressive acts?
We can’t simply ban our way out of this. The ultimate weapon is education: training rational minds to critically question the reality of the information they consume.
➡️Swipe through to unpack the “dual-policy” dilemma and discover how we can defend human rights in a synthetic world!