An AI-generated ad infiltrates our screens while we gorge on our meals, before the YouTube video we selected begins. Synthetic faces have become routine. WhatsApp groups stay afloat on nonsensical AI-generated videos, fabricated news and scams. Older generations absorb it, then turn it into frantic family text chains that keep everyone on edge over whatever catastrophe entered the group that week.

Trivial as these scenes seem, they point to a larger question of regulation once someone moves past harmless absurdity into using AI in a more sinister manner: unfortunately, no longer hypothetical.

It doesn't take a magnifying glass to see how AI has become woven into everyday work life, private or public: reports, presentations and visuals are now routinely produced through a simple prompt. Supervisors know the tells by now: the same over-polished phrasing and suspiciously immaculate structure, appearing again and again; graphs arrive with misspellings, labels float awkwardly over visuals, and AI-generated ads........

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