Deepfakes are getting good. People complain about these being used for propaganda, while ignoring the giant piles of propaganda around us all, all the time, from every direction to maintain the status quo.
Like, sure, ban or label deepfakes, or whatever. But by that logic, you’d have to ban CNN
I’m less worried about actual deepfakes and more worried that the default posture is going to become “everything I don’t like is deepfaked”
I mean, get into an argument online with anyone and there’s a better than even chance that you’ll be called a bot or a shill or some other secret agent of some nefarious force (or maybe you’re the one who will have a sneaking suspicion that your interlocutor works for the CIA). unreality is the default setting of the internet. the only solution, and I’m sorry to sound like a broken record, is to log off.
