Nina Schick
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Disinformation & synthetic media on the rise | Nina Schick (2021)
Nina Sheik warns that the rapid democratization of synthetic media has fundamentally destabilized the global information ecosystem, creating an unprecedented "Liar's Dividend" where authentic evidence can be plausibly denied to erode democratic consensus and enable political genocide. As the technology evolves to generate 90% of audiovisual content within the decade, the current lack of universal detection capabilities leaves societies vulnerable to biometric hijacking, authoritarian narrative control, and the systematic destruction of shared objective reality. Addressing this existential risk requires a shift from ineffective bans to mandatory content provenance standards, consent-based biometric legislation, and global cooperation on media literacy to inoculate populations against synthetic disinformation.