Nicole Nguyen

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636 appearances 12 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 11 Sep

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WSJ Tech News Briefing · When AI Grandmas Go Viral, What Even Is Reality Anymore? · 1 Aug 2026 podcast

And many include hashtags like hashtag Granny Spills, hashtag Relationship Advice, hashtag Personal Finance, hashtag World Cup even on a photo of Granny with Leo Messi.

They don't typically say hashtag AI.

The posts are designed to make you slow your scrolling, to take a second look.

Some are more obvious AI creations than others.

For any influencer, the value is in getting you to pay attention.

I was nearly duped by one picture of Granny clinking a glass of champagne with a Kardashian.

I did a double take and thought, who is this woman?

It all made me wonder how the rise of AI influencers is impacting our ability to discern what's real and fake online.

Can synthetic images be benign?

What does it do to us as it fills our feeds?

The explosion of AI tools like the ones Blur Studios used to create grainy spills, and how quickly the tech has been advancing, has rapidly increased the amount of AI-generated content online.

Do you have a sense of how much AI-manipulated imagery and video is out there?

Is that a knowable thing?

Hani Fareed is a digital forensics expert and professor of computer science at Dartmouth College.

He specializes in detecting deep fakes and manipulated media.

And it's becoming harder to tell what is AI slop.

Farid says while in the past there would have been some obvious tells, these days the probability of recognizing if something is AI or not is basically a coin toss.

because there are less tells, like the six-finger tell or...

Breed says the worst part of that advancement in technology is that we don't know how bad we are at distinguishing between real and fake.

And part of the reason it's dangerous is because of the sheer quantity of content.

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