Agree. It will be like text, which has always been trivial to conjure or alter.

It will be a blip in history that that there was a period in which producing a particular image required its contents to have existed in reality.

What we need going forward is a way to know provenance, where an image came from and what edits have been made. Then people can trust particular sources, as they do with text.

The Content Authenticity Initiative is working on that. https://contentauthenticity.org

This use case is a compelling use for blockchains https://research.adobe.com/news/content-authenticity-and-ima...