The AI labs whose models are eroding democratic trust are the same labs now embedding themselves in government.

This piece lays out a pretty dark cycle that goes way beyond "fake videos." AI companies are running a feedback loop where their tools destroy public trust in reality, and then they use that collapse to sell AI governance as the "objective" replacement for a broken cracy. Essentially: (OpenAI, Anthropic) make truth impossible to verify. - The exhaustion makes voters give up on human leaders. - The pivot is these same companies signing massive military and government contracts to run the state.