Nowadays, AI-generated content is so common that I always assume what I see is AI-generated unless I trust the source.
One problem I foresee is that our government agencies rely a lot on photo or video submissions as evidence or documentation. Some of these submissions are to ensure safety compliance.
With the convenience of AI, people may just generate a fake photo as “proof of work done,” but in actual fact, the safety requirements are not in place. Eventually, there will be a lot of such cases coming up, and the countermeasure would be that photos and videos can no longer be used as evidence unless there is a way to prove their authenticity.
So what would the world be like if, by default, we do not trust photos and videos? Does that mean we have to verify things in person? Wouldn’t that be counterproductive? I thought AI was supposed to help humanity increase productivity.