[brazzy]

> Most people are not technical in nature and cannot tell the difference between deepfakes and real photos and videos

They don't need to. The point is that eventually, everyone will just assume it's a fake, exactly because you can't tell, and fakes are easier to produce and thus more common than real leaked nude photos and videos. At that point, a deepfake shouldn't be more socially damaging than a rumor.

[ceejayoz]

> At that point, a deepfake shouldn't be more socially damaging than a rumor.

Rumors can be exceedingly damaging - to the point of death - even without convincing photographic evidence of it.

[brazzy]

Yes - but we've been dealing with that reality pretty much since humans existed.

[ceejayoz]

And we were dealing with "people kill other people" before nukes and guns and explosives and knives.

But the fancier tooling changed things a bit each time.

[yoz-y]

Eventually maybe, but we’re not there yet.

After social media became common it was also hypothesized that embarrassing stories dug up from somebody’s last would not be harmful anymore but that future has never materialized.

[red-iron-pine]

if we ever get to that point, where it is no longer capable to distinguish true from falsity, they're done as a society.

this is not a good, nor should it ever be, an inevitable thing

[brazzy]

Human society existed, survived, and improved before photographic or video evidence was a thing. I don't see how these becoming useless would be an unsurmountable blow.