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I suspect the greatest threat is not that politicians and billionaires can create realistic images of their enemies, rather they can deny any evidence of their own misdeeds.
Harris' airport crowd serves as an example. Whether or not it really happened (I assume it did) MAGAs will have cause to plausibly believe it didn't.
Not that evidence to the contrary of belief systems has ever been effective at deprogramming those invested in their worldview.
People are and always have been divorced from reality. Some people barely understand how their own house works, but nobody ever understood everything, and at no point you could be sure you know with absolute certainty what was going on 1000 miles away from you.
Let us not act like generative AI is going to break the 4th wall of our perfect world. And I don't even mean video or even image manipulation - basic text can and has been used for manipulation forever.
Perhaps we should reexamine things we've had for decades, like signing content with PGP and building actual trust around the world.