We are in for a hell of a year. Talked about this today with a friend after a few different ads designed to look like they were news stories from the CBC (and

We are in for a hell of a year. Talked about this today with a friend after a few different ads designed to look like they were news stories from the CBC (and also included interviews with Elon Musk). The audio (voice recreation) and lip sync are getting really good, really fast. But this is more a question of YouTube not having mechanisms to prevent (or at least quickly remove) blatant impersonation (especially of news sites). Unmoving news logos in the lower third seem like ideal candidates for identification/verification.