There may be upsides to the ability to fake video and audio of someone (better CGI effects in films, for example). But in my experience when people refer to a d

There may be upsides to the ability to fake video and audio of someone (better CGI effects in films, for example). But in my experience when people refer to a deepfake they seem to mean that the fake has been distributed to confuse or deceive, for which I can't really see any probable upsides. > So basically people and civilization are going to muddle along as they always have. I agree with this, but consider the drawbacks to rampant disinformation and the proliferation of deepfakes (all this is IMO): it will make any video or audio deniable and unusable as evidence. Real images will be denounced as fakes. Fake images will catch on and possibly cause real damage. People will rapidly lose trust in most sources of news, entrenching established known quantities. I feel like if we could reasonably put a stop to this we should. I don't think we can in general, though.