we’ve got photorealistic photo and video generation and I remember lots of people really feared we’ll see some crazy fakes like of presidents saying / doing something believable that could manipulate most people into whatever but most people end up being manipulated already so deeply that very few can actually get to the bottom of it and have guts to question everything they got to believe in since childhood so that front facing manipulation would literally be too much in people’s faces and quite easy to debunk also and it’s exactly where the power lies - no amount of debunking helps right now to dismantle corrupt governments, institutions, banks, money