David Pakman

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This is Gavin Newsom · And, This Is How Social Media Will Decide the Next Election With David Pakman · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

It's two things.

It's one at this point, the elections more than ever being affected by these platforms and 2028 probably more than any before that is going to be highly determined by the narratives that these algorithms determine are the most emotionally salient and put in front of people.

That's number one.

And number two, because of the AI aspect of it, the whole last part of the book is about how AI will change this.

The technology is essentially there

to create synthetic influencers.

I have to sit in front of a camera and if I want to do an hour of content, I've got to record an hour of video with technology.

You can dial up a thousand of me.

Some might be male, some might be female, different identities, whatever will appeal most directly to people and spin them up with nothing other than compute power

and a thousand X what I'm doing tailored to the algorithms of people.

It's 60, 70 percent of the way there is we're recording this very, very dangerous.

That's right.

And the point I make in the book is that by the time it was determined that this image of Trump with the walker isn't real, it kind of didn't matter.

because it accomplished a bunch of different things for different people.

Not all positive or negative for Donald Trump, but the point was, and it kind of returns at the end of the book when we talk about the coming AI flood, what's going to matter is the emotional reaction that this stuff triggers in people.

The truth of it is almost irrelevant.

And I even talk about talking with creators who have published accidentally

as far as I know, AI stuff.

And I've said to them, listen, you know that that actually wasn't real.

Like, I know it was an honest mistake.

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