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As part of the fourth IViR Science Fiction and Information Law competition<\/a>, DigiCon<\/a> will publish the stories of the finalists every week. The winning stories will be revealed during the CPDP 2026 conference<\/a> in Brussels on 19-22 May. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second shortlisted story is now live on DigiCon<\/mark><\/a>.
It is called The Fabrication of Trust<\/mark><\/a><\/strong> and was written by
Jaeques Koeman<\/mark> and Seda G\u00fcrses<\/mark>.

It takes an unusual form: a dialogue between human and AI, embedded within a manuscript recovered from what the story calls “the hinge period.”<\/em>
What happens when authority is not codified but optimised? When whoever shows up with a working system becomes the issuer? When infrastructure stops executing intent and starts fabricating it?<\/em>
The story is the kind of fiction that makes you realise the future it describes may already be creeping up on you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The featured image accompanying the story is from Better Images of AI<\/strong><\/a>, a non-profit library challenging the tired visual tropes of AI, robots, glowing brains, metal hands, and replacing them with images that reflect its actual material reality. DigiCon<\/strong> has been collaborating with them, and you can explore the full flipbook<\/a> on their website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IceMing & Digit \/<\/strong> <\/em>https:\/\/betterimagesofai.org<\/a> \/ https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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