AI and the Total Destruction of Trust

Trust has been plummeting for a while now. It seems likely AI video will exacerbate the problem, but I don't see it as a driver nearly as much as the increasing cultural divide in the west.

It has always been the case that you can trust an event occurred, but the story being fed around it was the point of failure with regard to trust. AI video just pushes that initial point of failure forward a step.