SMRTR AIFeb 3, 2026MIT Technology Review

What we’ve been getting wrong about AI’s truth crisis

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The US Department of Homeland Security's confirmed use of AI video generators from Google and Adobe to create public content, alongside the White House sharing digitally altered photos, reveals that truth-detection tools designed to combat AI misinformation are failing spectacularly. Even when people know content is fake, research shows they remain emotionally influenced by it, proving that transparency alone cannot solve our deepening crisis of truth.

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