https://deceit.blog/tag/synthetic-media Essays on what manipulation costs and why it lands. Tagged "synthetic-media". en Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:08:07 GMT 60 https://deceit.blog/essay/ai-csam-the-machine-that-hurts-children https://deceit.blog/essay/ai-csam-the-machine-that-hurts-children Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. In 2024, the Internet Watch Foundation found 13 AI generated videos of child sexual abuse. In 2025, they found 3,443. That is not a percentage increase anyone should format cleanly. It is 264 times more in one year. Sixty five percent of those videos were Category A, the most severe classification u… https://deceit.blog/essay/the-ouroboros https://deceit.blog/essay/the-ouroboros Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. The theory was posted on January 5, 2021, by a man using the name IlluminatiPirate, on a forum called Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe. He said the internet had died in 2017. He said the U.S. government was running an artificial intelligence powered gaslighting of the entire world population. He said the… https://deceit.blog/essay/deepfake-propaganda-pipeline https://deceit.blog/essay/deepfake-propaganda-pipeline Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. Six AI generated fakes went viral in 2026. They targeted different audiences, used different tools, and spread on different platforms. They all followed the same pipeline. The pipeline has stages. Each stage does specific work. Understanding the stages is more useful than memorizing the cases, becau…