> it totally removes the ability of a random citizen witness to capture evidence The police/etc have the same problem. > putting the power of deepfakes in the

> it totally removes the ability of a random citizen witness to capture evidence The police/etc have the same problem. > putting the power of deepfakes in the hands of ordinary people is going to make everybody a less credible witness, no? "Ordinary people" have a major advantage: parallelism and redundancy. Making one fake and disseminating it to many people is efficient and cheap. Faking many videos in a way that avoids easily discovered contradictions is very hard. Evidence always needs to be corroborated.