Presently. We are in what i like to call, the Era of truth. A Small period in which propaganda has completely failed, in which the states of the world are losing their grip. But this will not last.
With the Rise of AI, fake images and video are going to become far more common and far more effective than they are not. Reality and Fiction in the online space is going to become over saturated as every single individual with a computer gains the ability to create fake evidence.
Even as technology to server as countermeasures emerges, the general public will not know how to navigate such a world for some time, unless we get ahead of it.
AI needs to be properly kept in a box, regulated, and researched.
The only effective countermeasure worth speaking about is systems to educate the general population on how to identify fake videos and images, so that they can then report them. This is going to require the creation of software that can detect AI at a higher accuracy to those we use now.
Then verification checks will be required to prevent missuse and a new type of cancel culture.
This is a very difficult issue coming in our future, one that will likely emerge in less than a decade.
We need significant research on this from people with a Moral compass.
While we have chance.
