> This seems like a bit of a nothingburger? what was a takeaway here regardless of the story being wrong, is that the damage deepfakes will cause might not be

> This seems like a bit of a nothingburger? what was a takeaway here regardless of the story being wrong, is that the damage deepfakes will cause might not be what self-proclaimed futurists predicted (e.g. rampant use of the technology as a means to subvert evidence) but the opposite: that people will counter justified allegations of evidence as being deepfakes. So not the technology is doing most of the damage but the hypothetical possibility that allows that these arguments now exist. Imagine any Karen or Kyle now being presented with video evidence will soon scream "deepfake". And few have seen this coming because we were more absorbed with hypothetical (but less realistic) scenarios. This is even more fascinating (and was the simpler answer yet most have missed it). https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/theory/postmodernism/modules/baudrillardsimulation.html https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/theory/postmodernism...