Absolutely - there is evidence of this going back to the earliest days of photography. But it was pretty rare and (like you say) hard to do. My point was that it has now become so commonplace that for many people, the default position is "I assume it's AI unless you can prove otherwise"
the fakes were always here, it just got easier to make with AI, and harder to detect ... speaks loads about some people
Absolutely - there is evidence of this going back to the earliest days of photography. But it was pretty rare and (like you say) hard to do. My point was that it has now become so commonplace that for many people, the default position is "I assume it's AI unless you can prove otherwise"