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Tech Landscape #414

Controlling synthetic content generation, more advances in world models, and YouTube’s plan for 2026

Jan 26, 2026
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Hello!

This week Runway released the results of a test that found that 90% of people cannot reliably distinguish synthetic video from real footage. Shown side-by-side AI and real videos and asked to choose which was AI, people chose correctly an average of 57.1% — little better than chance.

When I took the test I got 15 out of 20 correct for an average of…

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