And now we suffer the mental tax of constantly having to ask, “ Is this real or AI?” I explore this in a special three-part audio series, “AI and the Blurring of Reality,” airing Saturdays on WSJ’s Tech News Briefing. “We found it way easier to grow these AI fictional characters,” he says. I’m more disturbed by the prevalence of subtle synthetic images: AI cooking videos, AI ads with robotic voice-overs, AI celebrity-wedding photos, AI political deepfakes… and the list goes on. Short of quitting the internet altogether, you can evaluate your feed by thinking like a researcher:• Does this match the real world?