in our hallucination machine (described in chapter 6). When combined with ‘deepfake’ technologies, which can animate these faces to make them say anything, and when what they say is powered by increasingly sophisticated speech recognition and language production software, such as GPT-3, we are all of a sudden living in a world populated by virtual people who are effectively indistinguishable from virtual representations of real people. In this world, we will become accustomed to not being able to tell who is real and who is not.
