I can tell from the pixels is coming to an end.

As computer-generated characters become increasingly photorealistic, people are finding it harder to distinguish between real and computer-generated

With photo retouching, postproduction in film, plastic surgery, and increasingly effective makeup & skin care products, we’re being bombarded with a growing amount of imagery featuring people who don’t appear naturally human.

bye bye uncanny valley.
2021-10-17: Things are now at the point where you can win prestigious photography prizes for fake images:

The Book of Veles: How Jonas Bendiksen hoodwinked the photography industry. The photographer explains the many layers of intrigue that went into the creation of his book about misinformation in the contemporary media landscape. If computer-generated fake news pictures are accepted by the curators who have to pick the highlights of all the year’s best photojournalism, it shows that the whole industry is quite vulnerable. The big tech companies regularly recruit top-level hackers, even criminal ones, to try to break into their systems. They are called penetration testers. They are paid top dollar to hack as much as they can and search for weaknesses in company’s system architecture, so that they can go fix the loopholes and protect themselves against being taken advantage of. I guess I see what I did as a similar service for documentary photography and photojournalism, just on a volunteer basis.

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