Remember in 1984 when the Party falsified and renamed every historical record in order to make people forget the past?
I think I've seen how that's going to happen.
With little effort, users of the art AI Midjourney were able to make photos of a fake earthquake in Oregon that not only look realistic, but look like they were taken in the time period the supposed catastrophe occurred.
Imagine if a powerful political party wanted to rewrite history to downplay its mistakes and make its enemies seem like demons in comparison. Imagine photos of the Great Cascadia Earthquake in a few million school textbooks and you're well on the way to understanding the power of this stuff.
Imagine compounding this over decades with millions of fake photos. Imagine the raw power to control the narrative that's there.
If you thought removing statues from public parks and hiring a Hollywood producer to add audio to J6 tape was bad, you haven't seen nothing yet.
At least some of them are just plain funny:
Uncanny stuff! It seems fun now, but I can guarantee you this tech will be used in ways you can't even perceive to try to change the past!
Here's one of staging the moon landing:
And one of Justin Bieber playing Woodstock: