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And foremost among my rights is living as a free equal in a modern democracy. I am not here to be subjugated by the violence in the failed ideas of dead minds.
How “Originalism” Prevented America From Becoming Part of the Modern World
umair haque
In March 2022, South Korea elected Yoon Suk-yeol as its new president. The conservative politician campaigned, in part, by seeding the internet with a deepfake version of himself, known as AI Yoon. This version, created by his younger campaign team, was funnier and more charming than the real Yoon. The Wall Street Journal reported that for some voters the fake politician—whose fakeness was not hidden—felt more authentic and appealing than the real one:
I realised that if getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.
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