Having spent much of the recent past cycling through periods of dread, lamentation, and disgust, I've come to realise the irony (or lack thereof) of our rapidly spiralling society. A few years ago, I was inspired to pen this piece after witnessing fledgeling AI tools at work. I felt as though we, at the time, were at a pivotal moment in human history – a fork in the road where on one side lay the truth; the other was riddled with fakes. I couldn't be more wrong, as there was