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Mexico Fake News AI: The Cartel Knew You'd Share It
Fake news detection just got a harder test, and the cartels just raised the bar. You're watching Mexico unravel in your feed and the images are terrifying: skylines on fire, planes on tarmacs reduced to ash, buildings exploding. But those planes weren't burning at that airport. Those images were AI-generated by the cartels themselves, seeded deliberately to amplify fear during real violence. You couldn't tell. Almost nobody could.
That's not a personal failure, it's a systemic one. An Ipsos poll of 25,000 people found 90% of Canadians have fallen for fake news, even though only 10% believe…
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