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A new Gallup survey finds a record eighty-nine percent of Americans believe government corruption is widespread — the highest figure the polling organization has ever recorded. That level of institutional distrust has real consequences for how people engage with policy, elections, and public life, and it shows no sign of reversing.
Shifting to the question of what's real online, Pangram's CEO is warning that we are dangerously close to dead internet theory becoming reality — the idea that most online content is generated by bots rather than people. With AI text and images now flooding job applications, product reviews, and insurance claims, the line between authentic and artificial is eroding faster than detection tools can keep up.
And on the legal front, the U.S. government has filed a brief siding with OpenAI in a copyright dispute over training large language models on protected material. The Justice Department argues America has a strong national interest in maintaining a competitive AI industry, effectively signaling that Washington sees copyright accommodation as a matter of economic strategy, not just intellectual property law.
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