Sure, but I still don't see why we should be hysterically scared about its development since I think photoshopped images would have made the same damage a long

Sure, but I still don't see why we should be hysterically scared about its development since I think photoshopped images would have made the same damage a long time ago if the system was really that fragile. The fact that photoshopped images aren't nearly as big a threat as what we're expecting deepfakes to be makes me think that however the set of amplifiers and filters are configured (and I'll admit that I don't have a full understanding of it all), it's likely that they're sufficient to not make society collapse once the technology has matured. Photoshopped images are a sort of "trial balloon" which has already proven that the system is pretty dang robust, that's my thesis.