Let's say you want to release a deepfake image. Your AI image, as generated, is not watermarked or hashed. Difficulty: Story-mode. You can release your image

Let's say you want to release a deepfake image. Your AI image, as generated, is not watermarked or hashed. Difficulty: Story-mode. You can release your image in two minutes flat. Let's now let's say your AI deepfake image is watermarked/hashed upon generation. Difficulty: Intermediate to hard. You might be able to get it done, but not without real effort, and removing all traces of the watermark without leaving artefacts might be so difficult as to be nearly impossible. ...So it doesn't eliminate the possibility of fakes, but it hugely raises the cost and effort bar. Only the most motivated would bother.