It’s going to be every politician’s excuse from now until doomsday. It’s already happening in American politics. Trump himself did it earlier this month:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/politics/donald-trump-fact-check-carroll-photograph/index.html

And this happened one day ago. Ars Technica themselves reported on it:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/nc-governor-candidate-cries-ai-fabrication-as-defense-for-racist-porn-forum-posts/

Tech bros have fucked the world so hard in so many ways.