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> Faking images to try and change history is as old as Stalin: https://www.history.com/news/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-...

Maybe so, but up until now forging photographs was far, far more expensive than creating real ones.

It won't be too long now until someone will be able to generate in a weekend a convincing self-consistent alternate-history series of Wikipedia articles about the second term of the Trump presidency... and stuff like that's going to fill up the historical databank of the colony ship that the last humans use to flee the dying Earth.