MZohran Mamdani says relatives send him AI videos of himself—and think they're real.
MHis exact words to WIRED: "I have family members sending AI videos of me, to me, thinking that it's real."
CWait, videos of him? Sent to him?
MYeah, the fake is so good his own relatives don't notice.
CThis isn't new. People fell for Photoshop twenty years ago.
MScale is different. His own relatives are doing it.
CSo his family is gullible. That's not an AI crisis.
MHe calls it a "crisis of faith" in reality. That's bigger than one family.
COh, come on. Every new media causes a panic. Radio, TV, now AI.
MBut this is personalized. The videos look and sound like you.
CSo does a good impressionist. Should we regulate comedians?
MNo, but a state lawmaker can't convince his own relatives a video isn't him.
CFine, it's a real problem. But the fix is media literacy, not monster panic.
MMedia literacy takes a generation. Deepfakes are here now.
CThey're not going to collapse society. We survived Photoshop.
MPhotoshop didn't sit in everyone's pocket at zero cost.
COkay, fair. But people need to learn to doubt what they see. That's urgent.
MYou can be insufferably reasonable.
CIt's a gift.
MBut here's the part people miss: it's not just politicians. Ordinary people are being scammed by fake relatives.
CThat's real. But it's a scam problem, not an AI problem.
MAI is the tool that makes the scam industrial.
COkay, better verification and platform labels would help. Not panic.
MNo one's panicking. A lawmaker is saying public trust is eroding.
CTrust in institutions was already eroding.
MExactly! AI just accelerates it.
CThat's ... probably true.
MSee, we can agree.
CBarely.
COn the robotics side, Akshay Prajapati posted on X that a Bengaluru startup's robot is transforming patient isolation care worldwide.
MWorldwide is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
CIt's the Mitra robot from Invento Robotics. It navigates wards, recognizes faces, helps doctors with isolated patients.
MIt was used in some Indian hospitals during COVID. Worldwide is overblown.
CFine, not worldwide. But a hospital robot that helps isolated patients is still impressive.
MIt is. The tech doesn't need the hype to matter.
CSomewhere a marketing team just shed a tear.
CDifferent world entirely: a developer on Bluesky named Elias Daler is building his own PlayStation 1 SDK, and he says it will be one hundred percent AI free.
MFrom scratch? That's like hand-carving your own wheels.
CAnd he's starting over with PS1 dev, apparently for the joy of it.
MI respect it. No autocomplete, no generated code. Just you and the silicon.
CIt'll probably run better than half the apps on my phone.
MIf he ships a game, I'll play it on principle.