This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think deepfakes could be a very good thing for society. Imagine if we got to the point where it was completely impossibl

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think deepfakes could be a very good thing for society. Imagine if we got to the point where it was completely impossible to distinguish fake images and videos from real ones. It would be a huge blow against surveillance capitalism and the surveillance state. If every video out there is suddenly a potential forgery, people will grow to become more skeptical of things they see unless they see those things in person in the meatspace. It's almost as if we're going to go back to the time before cameras and audio recordings. What makes things like deepfakes so scary right now is that people overwhelming trust images and videos by default. Once we shift from automatically trusting images and videos to automatically distrusting them, things like revenge porn and viral videos of people saying or doing embarrassing things will lose most of their power.