It's about a decade ago now that I first recall conversations about this problem.

Back then we knew this was going to happen.

And there are many solutions to this problem which existed back then, including the use of digital signing for images and videos to verify when they were produced and by whom.

We've had at least a decade to prepare for this and nobody in the media or tech sectors have been bothered doing fucking anything.

So now we get a couple of years of pure chaos as fake images get produced which are virtually indistinguishable from reality, and everyone is scrambling to put measures in place to fix this.