Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: @WallStreetApes/X There’s a familiar story about AI disinformation that goes something like this: With the arrival of technology that can easily generate plausible images and videos of people and events, the public, unable to reliably tell real from fake media, is suddenly at far greater risk of being misled and disinformed. In the late 2010s, when face-swapping tools started to go mainstream, this was a common prediction about “deepfakes,” alongside a