> ...after amazing public world wide demos that show how real the AI generated videos can be?

How quickly do you think our gerontocracy will adapt to the new reality?

Flat earth Billy can now make videos with a $20 subscription.

I think that's great. Billy will feed his flat earther friends for a few weeks or months and pretty soon the entire world will wise up and be highly skeptical of any new such videos. The more of this that gets out there, the quicker people will learn. If it's 1 or 2 videos to spin an election... People might not get wise to it.

Given the last 10 years I have no such faith in the common person.

which will only continue to convince people if the technology stays safely locked away in possession of a single corp.

if it were opened to public faking such videos would lose (nearly) all of its power