Anyone who buys a Pixel 9 — the latest model of Google’s flagship phone, available starting this week — will have access to the easiest, breeziest user interface for top-tier lies, built right into their mobile device. The default assumption about a photo is about to become that it’s faked because creating realistic and believable fake photos is now trivial to do. We are now leaping headfirst into a future where reality is less knowable.
Anyone who buys a Pixel 9 — the latest model of Google’s flagship phone, available starting this week — will have access to the easiest, breeziest user interface for top-tier lies, built right into their mobile device. The default assumption about a photo is about to become that it’s faked because creating realistic and believable fake photos is now trivial to do. We are now leaping headfirst into a future where reality is less knowable.