I've alluded to this before, by I had an unfinished sci-fi novel in the decades past where this was the backdrop, that at one point faking everything that comes

I've alluded to this before, by I had an unfinished sci-fi novel in the decades past where this was the backdrop, that at one point faking everything that comes over the wire became trivially easy. My prediction -- and I have no idea how true it would be -- is that once this became really prevalent and media outlets just used this to keep the 24/7 news cycle going, election results were faked, dead celebrities were prancing around commercials, seamless insertion of just about anything into your favorite old movies, that we would collectively have a Reality Crisis. Imagine if some percentage of people who talked about the Mandela Effect were right and that number kept growing. Imagine if we could hide a Tuskegee or two for a little while longer before it came out. You would get a huge amount of digital distrust, and some percentage of people would retreat to "If it wasn't printed in a book before 2020 ..." as a standard. Wild paranoia would emerge and others would retreat into a kind of indifference because "Who knows?" Previous conspiracy theories, suck as a faked moon landing, might become plausible just due to how many other wild fakes existed. How would you know who really won an election?