When Seeing Stops Being Believing

Send us Fan Mail Canadian security officials testified this week that AI deepfakes will "very likely" target the next federal election. Their solution? "Hopefully AI will help us detect AI. Hopefully." That's a lot of hope doing a lot of heavy lifting. This episode looks at the global evidence—Slovakia, India, Taiwan, Germany—and a concept called the "liar's dividend" that may be more dangerous than the fakes themselves. Then we project forward to 2028 and ask what happens when leaders who've already tried to overturn elections get access to tools that can fabricate any reality. Episode Tagsdeepfakes, elections, democracy, AI, misinformation, disinformation, Canada, CSE, liar's dividend, Trump, 2028, Slovakia, India, authoritarianism0:00 – The Warning 1:30 – The Global Evidence 3:30 – The Liar's Dividend 5:15 – The 2028 Problem 6:45 – Canada's Thin Defenses