Provenance, Regulation & AI Ad Trust Crisis

EU AI Act enforcement ramps up with compulsory AI labels. Claude's SynthID-Text watermark now global, but a new open-source tool strips it. Seedance 2.5 blocks ~80% copyrighted prompts. Google allows disabling visible watermarks. Creators posting AI ads face fan backlash (20-30% premium, 'no AI was used' counter-signal). Major YouTubers criticized for accepting AI money. Trust crisis deepens. YouTube's view-count change may further incentivize AI slop, exacerbating the trust issue.