I feel the issue is with human filters. Creating a seamless and believable image edit requires time and effort, regardless of how experienced the editor is. You

I feel the issue is with human filters. Creating a seamless and believable image edit requires time and effort, regardless of how experienced the editor is. You were limited by what images you could source, how they'd fit together (does the lighting and perspective match?), and there was often a contextual paper trail people could follow ('I recognise that picture of X'). With these image generation models, the only things filtered by human involvement are the creation of the prompt, and whether or not they believe any generated image is believable. The required time and effort is minimal, and on top of that you can generate hundreds by the time a single person can make a convincing Photoshop edit. --- In terms of being able to sift through generated images across the wider internet, I've no idea what can be done. But I feel a potential defence against them would be for news sources to publish the exact images they were sent online, keeping the original resolution, removing cropping, and retaining Exif data.