[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.