Cheap Fakes and AI Slop: What the Flood of Synthetic Content Does to Trust and Human Creativity
Most of the anxiety about AI and misinformation points at the deepfake: the flawless synthetic forgery that fools everyone. Eduard-Claudiu Gross studies something cruder, more common, and arguably more corrosive, the obvious fake that was never meant to fool you in the first place.
Eduard Gross is a communication scholar and researcher at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu in...







