Gregory's Serverre: https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24225972/ai-photo-era-what-is-reality-google-pixel-9
Ultimately, I think we'll unlearn the association between photo-realism and truth. And about time, too: there have always been Cassandras warning us that photographs always have a perspective; that they're shaped by authorial intent; that they can be made to outright lie but don't even have to in order to lead us wrong. But first there will be a period of adjustment, maybe generational, and that's where all the danger is concentrated.
It's not that photographs CAN be fake. It's that there's always something outside the frame. That the image is captured from a particular place in relation to its subject. That all it reproduces the arrangement of light during a particular span of time, often measured in milliseconds, and that moment may not be representative of the milliseconds that came before or after. That the process and choice of equipment influence the result. That someone has reasons for what they've chosen to show you.