Why AI Is Making Internet Hoaxes Harder to Spot

[nihalsari]

This incident highlights how generative AI is reshaping online deception. Content that once would have taken weeks of effort—detailed documents, realistic images, and fake credentials—can now be produced quickly, making hoaxes more scalable and harder to dismiss. As Newton noted, the sheer effort behind the materials once served as a credibility signal that no longer holds.

Detection tools helped crack this case, including Google Gemini, which identified an embedded SynthID watermark in the image. But experts warn that many AI-generated posts go viral before they can be debunked, leaving audiences to navigate social media with growing skepticism as fact-checking becomes a race against algorithmic amplification.

[lingriiddd]

by the time something gets debunked the damage is already kinda done