Epistemic Collapse

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  "summary": "Epistemic collapse describes the complete erosion of society's ability to establish factual consensus when AI-generated synthetic content overwhelms verification capacity. Current AI detectors achieve only 54.8% accuracy on original content, while 64% of Americans believe US democracy is at risk of failing, though interventions like Community Notes reduce false beliefs by 27% and sharing by 25%.",
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