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But this means once a country becomes authoritarian, or for those already in authoritarian countries, its over. Its would hard for any resistance to be able to trust each other.
Lile you see a video of your fellow revolutionaries apparantly colluding with the government and spying for them. Do you trust the video? What if its fake? And what if its actually real? If gonna make everyone suspicious of each other. Its gonna fracture your rebellion.
It used to be that only the rich and the powerful had access to fake videos. Many people believed in such videos because of that.
Now that fake videos are common, more people become suspicious of the authencity, which might be a good thing.
During the Tibet unrest in 2008, Chinese media produced videos of the "riot" which were obviously CGI. Nobody doubted because it wasn't comon to have fake videos at the time.
You need really need genAI for a country to become authoritarian.
My bigger point is that it's counterproductive to think of a government as an external black box. At the end of the day it's a reflection of society (at least to some degree).
What to do about it is another question. But IMO the first step has to be recognition of "how things got to be this way". If you can't do that, the discussion around the impact of genAI are IMO moot.
Take russia as an example. In the 90s they had a relatively open media landscape, chaotic and influenced by oligarchs, but critique was allowed and it was very prominent.
But the russians elected a KGB goon in 2000 and then reelected him in 2004 after he shut down most independent media in his first term.
To this day, the russian opposition continues to look for scapegoats (90s liberals, Yeltsin, etc.) and reject any responsibility of society more broadly (revanchism, supremacist ideas, imperialism).
If you can't even do that, then how are you going to deal with the impact of genAI?
My bigger point is that, IMO, genAI is almost a red herring. There will always be tech that can be used to enable authoritarianism. There is no magical tech solution to what is fundamentally a social issue.