Comment by atleastoptimal

I saw that, it wasn't AI generated. There were red herrings in the compression artifacts. The real store owner spoke about the experience:

https://x.com/Rimmy_Downunder/status/1947156872198595058

(sorry about the x link couldn't find anything else)

The problem of real footage being discredited as AI is as big as the problem of AI footage being passed as real. But they're subsets of the larger problem: AI can simulate all costly signals of value very cheaply, leading to all the inertia dependent on the costliness of those channels breaking down. This is true for epistemics, but also social bonds (chatbots), credentials, experience and education (AI performing better on many knowledge tasks than experienced humans), and others.