Samuel Checkal

AI-generated images and videos were once comically flawed. The flaws were so obvious that they became jokes: the mouth didn’t quite match the words, the hands looked strange, they looked comically cartoonish, and the risk of someone mistaking it for reality felt far away. Now, you often can’t tell at all. Emerging models are producing visuals and clips that are nearly indistinguishable from real footage, blurring the line between fact and fiction. This has become more than just a...

Author’s Note： This is an extended abstract for a Research Paper titled: “Like a Moth to a Flame: Cultish Dynamics in America’s Most...

Author’s Note： This is an extended abstract for an Ethics Brief titled: “On the Ethics of Predictive Policing Algorithms.” This brief...