Most 'media' is produced content designed to manipulate -- nothing new. The article isn't really AI specific as others have said.

Personally my fear based manipulation detection is very well tuned and that is 95% of all the manipulations you will ever get from so-called 'elites' who are better called 'entitled' and act like children when they do not get their way.

I trust ChatGPT for cooking lessons. I code with Claude code and Gemini but they know where they stand and who is the boss ;)

There is never a scenario for me where I defer final judgment on anything personally.

I realize others may want to blindly trust the 'authorities' as its the easy path, but I cured myself of that long before AI was ever a thing.

Take responsibility for your choices and AI is relegated to the role of tool as it should be.