Georgia — Deepfakes, Data Centers & the Liar’s Dividend

This Deep Dive breaks down what’s changed since, and what hasn’t. Deepfake incidents surged from 500,000 in 2023 to over 8 million in 2025. By 2026, AI- generated video is often indistinguishable from the real thing — to human eyes and to most detection tools. But the deeper danger isn’t just fake videos being believed. It’s real videos being disbelieved — a phenomenon legal scholars call the Liar’s Dividend, and one that’s already reshaping how the public processes video evidence.

🔑 In this episode:

🎭 What a deepfake actually is, and how fast the technology has outpaced detection

⚖ Brandolini’s Law: why a lie spreads faster than any correction ever can

🔏 C2PA and content watermarking — a serious effort with serious limits

📜 Georgia’s SB 9 deepfake law, and why the Great American AI Act could preempt it

🗳 The Ossoff–Collins Senate race and Bottoms–Jackson governor’s race — both toss-ups, both on the ballot November 3rd

⚡ Georgia Power’s $16.3B buildout and why residential bills are already up 37% since 2022

This is a pre-release explainer for Episode 7 of AI on the Ballot, a weekly series exploring the 2026 US midterms through the lens of AI policy — state by state, race by race.

🎙 Presented by Bennett Iorio

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This program is produced in association with the GIE Foundation. 

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