Comment by zamadatix

I think the massive scale up in making bogus images is actually a net good in the end. For decades, even before computers, images were edited on the idea people trust an image. Anything from removing/adding figures to a photo, changing something in the image to modify the meaning, or cropping something out to hide part of it. People had a default trust of images because 99% of the images they saw weren't worth modifying, so they didn't think about it.

Now images have gone back to being like a book. People are beginning to assume anyone can write anything, make up quotes, etc. We still get to keep the ones we just like or the ones we know were really that way (e.g. your wedding vows/wedding photos) but we've dropped this silly notion image=fact just because it's an image. It's not all good that faking an image has gotten consistently easier over the last 100 years, but it's also not bad that it's fallen apart enough people are seeing through it.