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by kshri24 684 days ago
I am not at all comfortable with this. Even though it is an amazing demo I feel the release of this tool could not have been more ill-timed. It has all the potential of wrecking US elections this year. I don't really know what the optimal release time should have been but I don't see how this can be used for good at all. And I am still just considering implications of this restricted to elections. I am not even going to think about what it would mean to child porn, terrorism and even entire assassinations orchestrated to destabilize a Government leading to Civil/World Wars. Lots of things can go wrong with this tech.
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Another huge issue is fraud. People impersonating others for financial fraud, etc.

Question is, is it stoppable? Doubt anyone thinks it can be stopped unless you get into fascistic/communistic/authoritarian tactics of arresting people for just using it at all.