Real truth, I'm afraid, is disappearing, and there's no way to get it back. It's funny: We've always seen the eventual abilities of computer processed images (t

Real truth, I'm afraid, is disappearing, and there's no way to get it back. It's funny: We've always seen the eventual abilities of computer processed images (their eventually being indistinguishable from reality) as an absolute endpoint to the progress made in hardware and software over the years, but this threat of deep fakes seems to have surprised the lot of us.