OK, so i was also just thinking this the other day as i was watching my YT shorts. A bunch of videos came up in my feed of pilots having crash landings or near misses, i kept saying "damn how is this not on the news". but some videos seemed a bit... not right, and that's because they were videos of people flying flight simulator and posting them as if they were real. But the only reason i caught on was because of the ATC comms were bad. other than that the graphics were too real, the physics were real, even the small ground traffic was moving around. come to find out its FS22. But it got me thinking, if i can get fooled by a YT short, what else can we get fooled by? is the TV we watch even real? Is biden even alive or did he die of old age? we dont actually know. 20 years ago we could say, "well duh hes alive i just saw him on the TV" but now.. you really dont know if its a deepfake or CGI or anything.

We already have AI rappers and vocal artists, deepfakes are already too good. VR is getting too good.

I think you are definitely right, we are at a crux, and we really don't know what's on the other side.