That sentence hit me hard too.

Forging photos before Photoshop was the work of nation states - and skepticism was low, a fabricated truth was readily accepted.

Photoshop _should_ have destroyed that, but the skill and time to fabricate truth was still high; skepticism remained low.

Now, with AI, the cost of fabricating truth is rapidly approaching zero. Within the last year, nearly everyone I talk to is skeptical of nearly everything. They see an image, or read an article, and wonder if they're being bamboozled.

I see this as a net positive. We are counterintuitively rediscovering skepticism by democratizing nation-state propaganda.

I believe this is a printing press moment, where truth will be spoken to power once again. I just hope we avoid the bloodshed that that the printing press wrought.