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Is AI slop the ultimate weapon for foreign interference? Or are we spiraling into another internet-fueled moral panic?


Last week several AI-generated photos of Mark Carney and Ghislaine Maxwell looking chummy went viral. It was easy to spot the fake, but it raised an important question: should we be worried about AI in this election?


Ryan Broderick, author of the Garbage Day newsletter, and host of his own podcast Panic World, doesn’t think so.


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