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AGAR: It's becoming harder to determine what's real online

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20.01.2026

Artificial intelligence is so good that pretty much anything can be created on a laptop these days

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In 1938, Orson Welles produced a radio play called War of the Worlds, a dramatization of the book by H.G. Wells. It was purported to be a live broadcast featuring witnesses and experts on air as Mars attacked Earth. People who had tuned in after the initial opening of the show believed it to be real. Panic ensued.

History.com wrote: “In New Jersey, ground zero for the fictitious invasion, national guardsmen wanted to know where they should report for duty and the Trenton Police Department fielded 2,000 calls in under two hours. In........

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