Go back a little further and it gets worse.
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Playing as a character is probably the point of the simulation, significant cheat codes quickly become boring so they likely would be living as an ordinary person and so difficult to distinguish. Their knowledge and skill set might even be limited to simulation appropriate levels. The scale of the simulation is important too, if it is not limited to just the Earth but simulates the entire galaxy or universe then it is likely we are too mundane of a locality to be visited and are actually just living our lives as background scenery. Or perhaps most of our history and evolution was ticked away theoretically and we are only actually simulated when we are visited. It is hard to believe dinosaurs lived 365 days a year, all that time on their hands, all those long summer afternoons to idle through.
When I was young I took a camera on every school trip and photographed all the scenery but now looking back the only thing that is interesting about those photographs is when I accidentally included someone from my class. All those places are still there but the people are gone.
We use any tool to make the things we desire and a thing we have to admit is a large number of us desire profit even at the expense of the utter degradation of our cultural and actual environment. We are the only animal that doesn't know that you don't shit where you eat.
I think it will happen fairly naturally with deepfakes, a few prominent instances where photographs are proven to be false and the public perception will switch to the assumption that all photos are fake unless proven otherwise. Humanity lived most of its history without the possibility of photographic evidence and that short interval where photographs were thought irrefutable is coming to an end. It is a forerunner of many difficult moderations in thought that are going to be necessary because of AI.
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