> Imagine the damage one bad kid could cause using deepfakes Deepfakes are highly damaging right now because much of the world still doesn't realise that peopl

> Imagine the damage one bad kid could cause using deepfakes Deepfakes are highly damaging right now because much of the world still doesn't realise that people can make deepfakes. When everyone knows that a photo is no longer reliable evidence by itself, the harm that can be done with a deepfake will drop to a similar level as that of other unreliable forms of evidence, like spoken or written claims. (Which is not to say that they won't be harmful at all -- you can still damage someone's reputation by circulating completely fabricated rumours about them -- but people will no longer treat photorealistic images as gospel.)