I guess this statement is a cheap protection against cheap journalists. Otherwise by now all the tabloids would be full of scary stories about deepfake politici

I guess this statement is a cheap protection against cheap journalists. Otherwise by now all the tabloids would be full of scary stories about deepfake politicians, deep-porn and all types of blackmailers (by the way, there is so much competition in AI now that some company may well pay for a wave of such articles to destroy the competitor). And in response to this, hearty old men would clobber the Congress with petitions to immediately ban all AI. Who wants that?