The new tech allows to do the same on a massive scale. Yes Stalin had people working for him who would manually erase from photos the people he didn't like any

The new tech allows to do the same on a massive scale. Yes Stalin had people working for him who would manually erase from photos the people he didn't like any more. It was possible. Photoshop's content-aware fill and various deep learning inpaining algorithms can do that at scale with a fraction of the effort. The same way, yes it was possible to hire a lookalike, but a) the deepfake will look more similar to the target person than any lookalike can and b) you don't need to find a needle-in-a-haystack lookalike to generate a fake video of anyone you want. Or, "the post has been carring messages to people for centuries, why is the Internet such a big deal?"