10 - Wildcard
The Decline of Video as Evidence in the Age of Artificial Intelligence For much of modern media history, video has been treated as one of the most reliable forms of evidence in public communication. Unlike text or audio, moving images carry an intuitive sense of authenticity, shaped by the assumption that cameras capture reality as it happens. News broadcasts, documentary filmmaking, and surveillance footage have traditionally reinforced the idea that “seeing is believing.” However, the rapid development of artificial intelligence-generated video is beginning to disrupt that long-standing relationship between visual media and truth. Tools capable of producing highly realistic synthetic footage now make it possible to fabricate events, people, and environments that never existed, challenging the assumption that video inherently reflects reality. As a result, the cultural authority of video is shifting away from being a form of proof and toward becoming something that must be verified ...
