
The problem is Goodhart’s Law; “Every measure which becomes a target becomes a bad measure”. Implementing a verification system that depends on video evidence creates both an incentive to forge such videos and a set of labeled training data that grows more readily available as the system sees more use. The adversarial generative network is literally designed to evolve better scams in response to a similarly-evolving scam detector, there’s no computational way around the need to have people involved to make sure things are what they’re claimed to be.
Universal Basic Income would be a good start, but the fundamental problem is money as the primary organizing force of society.
No need to cut the broken culms off, though you can cut away any dead portions as desired.
If it’s a matter of aesthetics, then definitely let the new culms reach full size before you cut away the broken ones.
When the bamboo cluster gets too big for your pot, you can cut it into four pieces for repotting.