Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In early 2025, the Chief Minister of Punjab, Bhagwant Mann, discovered that a compromising video of himself was spreading like wildfire across social media. The problem though was that it wasn’t real. The entire thing was fabricated by AI. Someone, somewhere had taken a few seconds of his likeness and fed it into a generator that produced a perfect deepfake that looked real enough to completely humiliate him.
And Bhagwant is only one story. This isn’t just about one video or one victim. It’s about how AI slop is quietly eating away at reality itself, and whether there’s anything left we can do to stop it.
00:00 The AI Sloppication of the Entire World
01:16 The Promise of Salvation
09:20 The Philosophical Cost
17:09 The Economic Cost
21:10 The Social Cost
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In early 2025, the Chief Minister of Punjab, Bhagwant Mann, discovered that a compromising video of himself was spreading like wildfire across social media. The problem though was that it wasn’t real. The entire thing was fabricated by AI. Someone, somewhere had taken a few seconds of his likeness and fed it into a generator that produced a perfect deepfake that looked real enough to completely humiliate him.
And Bhagwant is only one story. This isn’t just about one video or one victim. It’s about how AI slop is quietly eating away at reality itself, and whether there’s anything left we can do to stop it.
00:00 The AI Sloppication of the Entire World
01:16 The Promise of Salvation
09:20 The Philosophical Cost
17:09 The Economic Cost
21:10 The Social Cost
Listen to Aperture on Spotify: bit.ly/aperturepod
Support: patreon.com/ApertureYT
Shop: bit.ly/ApertureMerch
Subscribe: bit.ly/SubscribeToAperture
Discord: discord.gg/nDDVGv2MHp
Questions or concerns? underknown.com/contact
Interested in sponsoring Aperture? contact@underknown.com
#ai #artificialintelligence #socialmedia #technology #science #psychology #philosophy #chatgpt
