[analog8374]

Consider the "truth level" of things.

Things you personally see = 10

Things you heard from a friend = 9

Things you heard from a stranger on the internet = 1

Things you heard from a professional talker on the internet = -10

Right now, truth is based mostly on those last 2.

[JKCalhoun]

You missed things you see on the internet/news. We all "saw" the World Trade Center towers come down.

Obviously, now, AI generated content sort of makes seeing on the internet not necessarily true.

[analog8374]

We've always known that this machinery of "text and images acquired from remote sources" is profoundly thin and flimsy. Now it's just becoming obvious.