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The FAIK Files explores the mysterious and often wacky intersection of AI, technology, and humanity. From cognitive warfare to digital deception, we examine how AI is reshaping our reality through news, research, and real-world examples. Join us for a thought-provoking journey into a world where anything can be faked, truth is increasingly elusive, and human nature meets artificial intelligence head-on.
Welcome back to The FAIK Files!
In this week's episode:
Google announces the Gemini 3 collection and the new Antigravity IDE.
New research reveals how AI-edited images and videos can successfully implant false memories.
We look at Parallel Multimodal Large Diffusion Language Models.
Russian bloggers are using AI-generated videos to depict false scenarios regarding Ukrainian troops.
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*** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***
Gemini 3 and Antigravity:
Gemini 3 Overview: https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-collection/
Gemini 3 Pro: https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/pro/
Gemini 3 Pro Model Card: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/Model-Cards/Gemini-3-Pro-Model-Card.pdf
Generative UI: https://research.google/blog/generative-ui-a-rich-custom-visual-interactive-user-experience-for-any-prompt/
Antigravity IDE: https://antigravity.google/product
Ethan Mollick’s Blog Post: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-years-from-gpt-3-to-gemini
AI-Edited Images and Videos Can Implant False Memories and Distort Recollection:
AI-edited images and especially AI-generated videos can cause people to confidently remember events that never happened.
Paper: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/162835/3706598.3713697.pdf
Participants were first shown original images, then after a delay they were shown a stimulus corresponding to their assigned condition, and later memory tests were applied to check recall and confidence.
Across 200 participants: AI-generated videos made from AI-edited images created 2.05× more false memories.
They were also more confident in those false memories (1.19× increase)
Parallel Multimodal Large Diffusion Language Models:
Sent in by Discord member and future paperclip “Bullethead”!
The Github Repo: https://github.com/tyfeld/MMaDA-Parallel
Try it on Huggingface: https://huggingface.co/spaces/akhaliq/MMaDA-Parallel-A
The Research Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09611
Russian bloggers push AI-made videos of 'fleeing' Ukrainian troops:
https://monitoring.bbc.co.uk/product/b0004x68
Dealing with the larger issues on Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fridon-kiria-5088687_today-i-had-the-opportunity-to-work-on-two-activity-7394432902073319424-ttgJ/
*** THE BOILERPLATE ***
About The FAIK Files:
The FAIK Files is an offshoot project from Perry Carpenter's most recent book, FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions.
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The FAIK Files
The FAIK Files explores the mysterious and often wacky intersection of AI, technology, and humanity. From cognitive warfare to digital deception, we examine how AI is reshaping our reality through news, research, and real-world examples. Join us for a thought-provoking journey into a world where anything can be faked, truth is increasingly elusive, and human nature meets artificial intelligence head-on.
