Jack Posobiec

But let's start off with the beginning.

Okay.

I'm not really on the Twitter platform.

I'm on Getter.

But I can't help but notice whenever I'm just perusing Twitter, I would make the claim that the single phrase that is being asked most is,

in 2025 is, Glock, is this real?

Because if you're scanning through your Twitter feed, again and again and again, you see something, and you have literally no idea now whether it's real, whether it's a genuine something that someone caught with their phone, or whether it's manufactured.

And there's always... You go to the comments to find out, and someone's top comment is always, Glock...

Is this real?

And I would suggest that really does.

It's created an epistemological doubt really now.

Fundamental.

You have no idea anymore.

what whether what you're seeing is real or not and there is a question that you know you you starting off from that reflection there is a question as to how viable democracy is after that because democracy is all about looking at the world around you and making a judgment if you no longer and i know you said this isn't that you know this is only like the starting point of your thesis because you actually go into this sort of in a lot more detail but i think the point

It's important to make the point that if you no longer have any solid confidence that 99% of your source of information is actually true beyond an AI video generator, how on earth can you make the calculations necessary in order to form political judgments?

Well, we've had social media, I guess, and social media in and of itself has fundamentally changed the landscape of politics.

It's difficult to think that we would have had the phenomenon of Donald Trump, the Donald Trump insurgency, if social media hadn't existed.

So let's say we had a running of about 20 years, 15, 20 years of social media without AI, and now we have the AI component to it.

You mentioned the images point and the Starling point.

In your book, you point out that Starling in the 50s airbrushed people out of photographs once they'd become enemies.