Can you believe your own eyes?

While “You Can See Everything” is challenging theatergoers’ ability to discern what’s real, the same test is happening 24/7 in our social media feeds.

Several in-depth stories this week highlighted just how much work it takes to spot deepfakes and other deceptions.

Jessica Lucas offered a surprisingly emotional look for Intelligencer at “the adult children cleaning up their parents’ feeds,” recognizing that senior citizens are uniquely vulnerable to the AI slop that now permeates Facebook and other sites.

“These adult children describe watching their relatives — call them iPad parents — ingest content they have no context for, slipping into a zombified state of consumption that their loved ones often believe is exacerbating their decline,” Lucas wrote.

Some of the testimonials in her piece are heart-wrenching. “For a generation that often struggled to contextualize much of what it saw online,” she wrote. “AI created a hyperpersonalized fantasyland.” Read the rest here.