So this is the future - we can't trust anything and so we trust nothing but our pre-existing biases
Bugger that.
This is a tech-created problem it can be tech-solved.
1. Photo manipulation leaves traces on the pixels, and this must be worse.
2. cameras can hash / sign every other frame or similar - we can build a chain of hardware to image that can be followed - and of an image or video does not have a CA cert chain it should be as mis-trusted as a web site without TLS
Bugger that.
This is a tech-created problem it can be tech-solved.
1. Photo manipulation leaves traces on the pixels, and this must be worse.
2. cameras can hash / sign every other frame or similar - we can build a chain of hardware to image that can be followed - and of an image or video does not have a CA cert chain it should be as mis-trusted as a web site without TLS
3. Err - there must be other ways.