In a paper, published in iScience in 2021, researchers evaluated our ability as humans to differentiate real, authentic videos from deep-fakes. A total of 210 people participated in the study. The study was designed to have them watch 16 short videos (eight were deep-fake and eight were athentic) and determine which ones were deep-fakes. The researchers found that people can’t detect deepfakes as well as they think they can.
I recently published an article about taking on writing assignments for marketing projects in 2011. Getting a content-heavy project assignment on Friday that’s due on Monday was the beginning of what would be a labor-intensive weekend, with notebooks, multiple printouts, insane amounts of coffee, and email requests begging for references.
Good writing isn’t about density or long words—it’s about clarity. The best writing feels intuitive and helps readers feel better informed and even smarter. That principle shaped Rudolf Flesch’s breakthrough 1945 study, Marks of a Readable Style, which was based on years of research into what makes text easy or hard to read.
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In a paper, published in iScience in 2021, researchers evaluated our ability as humans to differentiate real, authentic videos from deep-fakes. A total of 210 people participated in the study. The study was designed to have them watch 16 short videos (eight were deep-fake and eight were athentic) and determine which ones were deep-fakes. The researchers found that people can’t detect deepfakes as well as they think they can.
I recently published an article about taking on writing assignments for marketing projects in 2011. Getting a content-heavy project assignment on Friday that’s due on Monday was the beginning of what would be a labor-intensive weekend, with notebooks, multiple printouts, insane amounts of coffee, and email requests begging for references.
Good writing isn’t about density or long words—it’s about clarity. The best writing feels intuitive and helps readers feel better informed and even smarter. That principle shaped Rudolf Flesch’s breakthrough 1945 study, Marks of a Readable Style, which was based on years of research into what makes text easy or hard to read.
Graphic created with Nano Banana, Gemini Flash 2.5.
Photo by Nedim T. on Unsplash
