I'm really excited to see what could be done with this! I think the primary benefits of this being released are two fold: 1) It will give security researchers

I'm really excited to see what could be done with this! I think the primary benefits of this being released are two fold: 1) It will give security researchers more freely available technology to work with in order to try and fight the malicious use of deepfakes. (I saw some interesting comments in this thread about TPM. It'd be interesting to see what other solutions are out there.) 2) It would raise the overall awareness of the general population about the existence and advancements that deepfake technology has made. I would argue that a small subset of the overall population know what the term "deepfake" means, and even fewer are aware at how far it has progressed in only a few short years. (I'm not super well versed in the topic myself, I just know that I've heard a lot of progress has been made.) I think that since this tech is already actively being used by bad actors, the best course of action that we can take until at least a somewhat good counter to it has been adopted (and then quickly defeated) is to make as many people aware that this is something that could affect them, or their families. That this is something that could be used to get someone fired, or hurt, or killed. I think that the more that people are aware of its existence, the less impactful the overall effect of deepfakes becomes. People learn to look twice before making a call on something, because of how easy it has become to fake audio and video.