The Media & Their Narratives.

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...But this claim from the article, THIS claim, I call bullshit on:

“It’s all but impossible to say what tools have been used — it could be photoshop style tools, which incorporate elements of AI and generative AI, or something else. Currently the technology doesn’t allow you to trace what tools have been used,” says Hannah Perry, lead digital researcher at the London-based think tank Demos.

What the hell kind of "expert" would make such a blatantly false claim? I'm no expert at all, but even I know that almost every software package, and almost every camera, leaves footprints on photos when taken or manipulated that tell you exactly who and what was there. Even I, lowly little old me, have software that will parse out that information for you forthwith. Free-to-download-from-the-internet software at that. It's not super secret squirrel stuff!

All modern cell phones, and most digital cameras, leave an imprint not only of the phone make and model, but also even the camera settings the image was taken with, and even the location on Earth's surface where it was taken, and the compass direction the camera was pointing!

After a photo is taken, almost all software image manipulation packages leave their mark on that data as well, right down to time stamp the image was manipulated and the software version that was used...

Aaah, I think I see where you errored. You're looking at this situation through 'reality-eyes', unlike the
media who draw-up their own narrative -regardless if it conflicts with what their consumers already know
as fact, and present a case that enforces the belief that the public would be lost without them.

I believe Aristotle said it best when he suggested the media are full of shit.