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This reminds of me of similar experience on lemmy.ml where yogthos posted a blurry picture with meme text, and a person and I first started believing it was AI because of the weird context of the image that looked unrealistic. Then a couple other people started to question if it was really AI, and a reverse image search led them to finding a post of the image that existed pre-AI. I did some extra digging and found related images on a firefighter magazine website that included the location and time the event occurred, and I deleted my previous comment upon discovering this.
I do try to resist commenting on a subject before doing an investigation, but sometimes I am guilty of being too quick to make an assumption. With AI, though, it's really hard to take any media as truth anymore, so I am very skeptical of everything I see at this point.
Same, AI generated media is getting to the point where it's very difficult to tell if something is real or not. It's going to be an interesting adjustment period where we can no longer take video or photographic evidence for granted anymore. I can see cameras using something like RSA going forward, where the camera will sign the image with a cryptographic signature using its private key, and then anybody could verify that the image came from the camera using the public key published by the manufacturer for example. I actually recall reading a paper a little while back which explained how this could work, and you could embed signature data in a way which would survive retouching software too.