Deep fakes are a lot work when the newsmedia is largely not held accountable in the first place.

there are people falling for youtube Elon Musk deepfake Tesla scam streams

The danger of it was no one knowing what is real and we are already there .

because the biggest recent scandal w.r.t. to doctored footage was that slowed down recording of nancy pelosi, which can be done with technology we’ve had for the past 40 years, and you don’t need to be stanley fucking kubrick to pull it off, compared to that, deepfaking is just vanity