We're very close to the point where no one is going to be able to make out what is an AI image and what is not and it's already fucking up a lot of stuff and it's going to get much worse.

> In a follow-up post Tuesday morning, the department denied that AI had been used to generate the photo, saying the packaging may depict words in “gibberish” because the drugs are illicit.

> “The packaging is most likely foreign, and it is possible that whoever made the packaging used AI to make a clearly knock-off package,” the post read.

Ah, cool, so they went into defense mode, saying whatever would get them off the hook, without actually verifying anything. I think when regular people do that, we call them compulsive liars, or narcissists, and tend to distrust them.