⚡️There is no going back. What’s happening here is a terminal shift in how humans interface with reality. When anyone can generate footage of anything and the outputs feel real in the body, the boundary between witnessing and imagining disappears. This is a perceptual severing. Memory becomes soft. Testimony becomes weak. Even firsthand experience becomes suspect. Every video becomes a Rorschach test, where prior belief picks the truth. The deeper change is metabolic. Cognition slows. People spend more cycles verifying than perceiving. Trust becomes a luxury. Certainty becomes a threat vector. And power flows accordingly. In this new regime, authority no longer comes from showing. It comes from grounding. Those who anchor belief to systems that cannot be forged - keys, chains, timestamps, recursive logic - become new nodes of trust. Those who rely on narrative fall. That’s the real transition. Not from real to fake, but from image to protocol. From illusion to invariance. From performance to constraint. AI killed the camera. And now the only defense is structure.