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The Death of Seeing Is Believing

How deepfakes, censorship, and runaway AI are breaking the world’s shared truth layer

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Tomas Heligr-Pyke
Dec 01, 2025
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I didn’t sit down tonight planning to write an article about the end of reality.
I was just slightly sleep deprived and playing with Google’s new Gemini image-generation “pro” mode, Nano Banana Pro.

I expected some fun, some cursed images, maybe a few laughs.
What I didn’t expect was the sinking feeling in my stomach that… oh.
We’re actually cooked.

Thanks f…

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