"Kendzior’s argument about the timing of the [Epstein] files’ release is one that deserves to be taken seriously rather than dismissed. She contends that the documents are public not because accountability is winning, but because the networks they expose have consolidated sufficient power — across politics, media, finance, law enforcement, the judiciary, and technology — that exposure itself has become affordable. They are not afraid of what we will do with this information, because they have spent decades ensuring that the institutions capable of acting on it are either compromised, captured, or rendered inert.[…]

"They were also waiting, Kendzior argues, for one more development: the maturation of artificial intelligence capable of generating realistic video, audio, and photographs that are functionally indistinguishable from authentic documentation."

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