Three Things About AI I Can't Stop Thinking About
A Searching For The Truth special report
I've spent some time building content around AI, and I mean it when I say this technology is amazing. It excites me the way uncovering a buried piece of history excites me — it feels like watching something genuinely new unfold in real time, one disclosure at a time.
But loving something doesn't mean looking away from what's uncomfortable about it. This year, a handful of stories broke that most people I talk to haven't heard of — and each one worried me more than any headline about robots "taking over" ever could. Not because AI is secretly plotting anything. But because the people building and spreading these systems have quietly admitted things that deserve a much bigger spotlight.
Let's start with the one you've probably already run into, without knowing it.
The Videos You've Already Fallen For (And Didn't Know It)
Fake AI video is no longer a novelty. It's operational infrastructure. In the 2026 midterm cycle, a political PAC ran an AI-generated video placing a sitting congressman in a fabricated scenario with synthesized voices and images he never produced — and it spread across the internet before his campaign could even respond. On TikTok, a single network of just 30 accounts uploaded over 550 AI-generated "news" videos with polished fake presenters; roughly 90% of them contained false claims, and one conspiracy video about a detention facility racked up millions of views before anyone flagged it.
The platforms know it's happening. TikTok alone has labeled more than 3 billion AI-generated videos. But their own detection systems only catch an estimated 35–45% of the fake content out there. That means, by the platform's own numbers, more than half of it is slipping through unlabeled.
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