I'm curious about peoples' views on something. It's clear that in the future we will be able to create fakes that are effectively indistinguishable from realit

I'm curious about peoples' views on something. It's clear that in the future we will be able to create fakes that are effectively indistinguishable from reality. The audio in this 'Trump speech' [1] is already remarkable. So there are two ways we can go from here. The first is to try to maintain faith in multimedia. What you see or hear is probably real because we try to pass a bunch of laws making it a really bad thing to try to impersonate people. The second is to go the route of internet speech today. If somebody claims to be somebody of note, you generally would not believe them without extensive proof. And so what they say does not reflect upon the person they claim to be. If video/audio manipulation tech was allowed without constraint, this would eventually become the same for general audio/video. Having no trust in what you see or hear is not a great thing. But at the same time, I think there's a very good argument to be made for the fact that people are already far too susceptible to fake information because we, even before the 'real' advent of deep fake type technology, are still teetering on the precipice between believable and not. For instance this [2] famous image of "animal testing" that keeps going viral on social media every couple of years. It has nothing to do with animal testing, but people are naive. Deep fakes would throw us well off that precipice to the point that I think we'd see substantially increased amounts of scrutiny given to misinformation. The downside here is of course we'd also see substantially increased amounts of scrutiny given to legitimate information, though I'm not entirely sure I see that as a negative. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gpc_artOYI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gpc_artOYI [2] - https://speakingofresearch.com/2014/02/27/fact-into-fiction-why-context-matters-with-animal-images/ https://speakingofresearch.com/2014/02/27/fact-into-fiction-...