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SUMMARY:What is the Epistemic Threat of Digital Fakes? - Kay Mathiesen\, D
 on Fallis
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DESCRIPTION:It has been suggested that digital fakes—deepfakes\, fake ne
 ws\, and bots posing ashumans\, etc.—could lead to an “infopocalypse
 ” where we can no longer tell what is real. The most obvious epistemic t
 hreat is that people can end up with numerous false beliefs about the worl
 d if they take these digital fakes to be genuine. But perhaps more importa
 ntly\, digital fakes can undermine our trust in valuable epistemic resourc
 es\, such as videos\, newspapers\, and human testifiers. Recently\, severa
 l philosophers (e.g.\, Harris 2021\, Atencia-Linares and Artiga 2022\, Cha
 lmers 2022\, Habgood-Coote 2023\, Simon et al. 2023\, Cüyaz 2024) have do
 wnplayed the epistemic threat of digital fakes. Leveraging philosophical w
 ork on art forgeries and counterfeit currency\, we offer a conceptual anal
 ysis of fakes. We use this analysis to show that the arguments of these ph
 ilosophers fail.
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URL:https://pretalx.iacapconf.org/iacap-2026/talk/9KFS3Z/
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