This is fabricated speech in a deepfake of Tyson, not his scientific conclusion. Reports of the 2025 warning video describe the real Tyson appearing afterward to explain that the words were not his.
“I just can't escape the conclusion that the Earth might actually be flat” — Fabricated speech in an AI deepfake of Neil deGrasse Tyson; not his scientific conclusion.
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Provenance
The source
Material
AI-generated speech imitating Neil deGrasse Tyson
Reported demonstration
It's Getting Harder To Know What's Real, 2025
Actual position in clip
Tyson explains the apparent statement was not his
I just can't escape the conclusion that the Earth might actually be flat.
NDTV's report ↗ transcribes the fake sentence and explains the reveal.
The AOL report ↗ describes the real Tyson appearing with the clip on his phone.
indy100 ↗ likewise distinguishes the synthetic likeness from Tyson's actual words.
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Fact-check
Often misattributed
The apparent speaker is a synthetic likeness; the report of the reveal ↗ records Tyson disowning the statement.
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Incorrectly attributed to Neil deGrasse Tyson Unsupported attribution
The apparent speaker is a synthetic likeness; the report of the reveal ↗ records Tyson disowning the statement.
✓This is fabricated speech in a deepfake of Tyson, not his scientific conclusion. Reports of the 2025 warning video describe the real Tyson appearing afterward to explain that the words were not his.
Context
Why it mattered
The misleading opening was shown as part of a warning about realistic synthetic media. The report of the demonstration ↗ describes the real Tyson appearing with the clip on a phone and saying the apparent performance was not him, so the reveal is essential context.
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The writer or system that produced this fake sentence is not identified in the sources checked here. Neil deGrasse Tyson shared the deceptive clip as a demonstration and explicitly disowned its words.
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The primary source (Chicago)
Unidentified writer. Fabricated speech in a Neil deGrasse Tyson deepfake, shown in the 2025 video It's Getting Harder To Know What's Real, as described in contemporary reports.
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Quotle.info. “Who really said ‘I just can't escape the conclusion that the Earth might actually be flat’?” Last verified 9 Nov 2026. https://quotle.info/who-said/i-just-cant-escape-the-conclusion-that-the-earth-might/