>>isn't aware that videos can be faked with AI, or non-AI special effects

These two are very different things. My family believes all kinds of videos on the internet are fake. None of them have any idea what a tool like Sora can do. The gap between "oh this was probably special effects" to "you have to notice pixels shimmering around someone's hand to tell" is enormous.

>>My family is mostly working class in an economically depressed part of the Virginia/West Virginia coal country, and every single one of them is aware of this.

Your working class family has time to keep up with the advancements in generative AI for video? They have more free time than I do then. If we're sharing anecdotes about families then my family is from Polish coal country and their idea of AI is talking to your car and it responding poorly.

>>I maintain that the attitude driving this paternalistic, censorious attitude is arrogance and condescension.

I'm confused - who is displaying this "censorious" attitude here?

>> and your source of data for this is "your own experience"? Really?

Yes, really. I mean do you have anything else? You are also quoting things from your own experience.