JRE #2466 - Foster & Kisin · Aired Mar 11, 2026
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AI and deepfakes will make it impossible to believe extraordinary events like the return of Jesus even if caught on camera.
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This tracks real concern among serious researchers. UC Berkeley deepfake expert Hany Farid has warned publicly that we're losing a shared reality because people increasingly can't tell real footage from fake, to the point that authentic evidence of anything remarkable becomes easy to dismiss as fabricated. It's a defensible worry held by credentialed experts, but treating it as a certainty about the future rather than one likely risk among several is one sided.
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Is it true that AI and deepfakes will make it impossible to believe extraordinary events like the return of Jesus even if caught on camera?
It leaves out the other side. This tracks real concern among serious researchers. UC Berkeley deepfake expert Hany Farid has warned publicly that we're losing a shared reality because people increasingly can't tell real footage from fake, to the point that authentic evidence of anything remarkable becomes easy to dismiss as fabricated. It was said on JRE #2466 - Foster & Kisin, aired Mar 11, 2026, at 25:10. We haven't independently confirmed who said it. The supporting source is news.berkeley.edu, linked below.
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