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the comfortable feeling that something's true, which lies have learned to fake brilliantly
means The quality of seeming reasonable or believable, whether or not it actually is true.
from From Latin 'plausibilis,' meaning 'deserving applause,' from 'plaudere,' to clap or applaud — the same root that gives us 'applause' and 'plaudit.' So a 'plausible' claim was originally one worthy of a hand-clap of approval; only later did the word slide from 'praiseworthy' toward 'merely convincing-sounding,' a drift that tells you everything about how easily approval and truth part ways.
- con artist's tool
- Scams thrive on sounding right, not being right
- vs truth
- Plausible falsehoods spread faster than awkward facts
- brain bias
- Familiar claims feel more believable on repeat
- legal escape
- Plausible deniability keeps powerful hands officially clean
- fiction's rule
- Readers forgive impossible, never forgive unconvincing
for instance
deepfake detection algorithms — microsoft's video authenticator (2020) and meta's deepfake detection challenge showed 65-85% accuracy in identifying manipulated videos