I’m old enough to remember when Photoshop became a thing and everyone said it was the end of the world as we know it.

That we won’t be able to trust images ever again, that people would use it to mass produce misinformation and it would lead to abuse.

I can’t tell if that was a mad panic or if that’s exactly what happened though.

Yeah, that fits with my experience. Well said.

Speaking as a therapist, with a developed sense of empathy, and humor so dark the American police would shoot it, I think it’s possible to sustain both through awareness and choice