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what have we become! after that horror of such a barbaric inhuman attack, we also hide the reality and push for disinformation so this could happen again and again. and these nightmares will happen in more and more places and it will be harder and harder to understand what is real and what is fake.

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I wouldn't panic much yet. Trust, chains of evidence, and authentication aren't new mechanisms. These systems deliberately work independently of the quantity or quality of manufactured bullshit.

I don't mean to be dismissive. Recent technological breakthroughs will disrupt the status quo. Problems will arise; the (anti-)spam arms race will continue, etc. But hope is defensible. The sky isn't falling, and I think we'll be okay.

agreed. Photoshop has existed for quite a long time, and often just made earlier retouching techniques easier and faster, so it's not like this is new. Read Disclosure, by Michael Crichton, for example.

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