Why bother catching politicians doing something when you can just draw them in? Will wreak havoc on societies with weak politics/reporting culture.
Journalist: "Here is a compromising photo of a politician."
Politician: "Here are 1M photos of every politician doing every imaginable illegal act. Prove that your one photo is not similarly fabricated."
Iconic photos are crucial for telling news in a way people remember. For example:
* We remember Tienemen square because of [tank man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man)
* We remember napalm in Vietnam because of [Phan Thi Kim Phuc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man)
* There are too many pictures from the civil rights movement, so I'll [just link to the Getty's gallery](http://www.gettyimages.com/event/the-american-souths-troubli...). These pictures tell the story of violence against black far better than any article ever could.
errr.... I hate to break it to you but... https://github.com/phillipi/pix2pix/blob/master/imgs/example...
Of course it relied heavily on everybody knowing everybody else in much smaller societies, but that we can do also by doing an AR face lookup on every person we ever interact with.
Of course, eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable even when not intentionally deceptive, and testimony is much easier to falsify even without any technical aid than any other form of evidence, so relying solely on personal testimony wouldn't really help to avoid fabricated evidence, anyway.
...or a drug-usage scene.
...or any other thing you could think up. It's even possible this could be pushed into a generated movie. You could even work the "voices" in (have the person say virtually anything you want, nearly perfectly, synched perfectly with the facial expressions/movements/body language).
There's a lot of scary, yet interesting possibilities here!
Hmm - think of the possibilities for CGI effects? Rather than having to build a 3D model, just have the software imagine the scene (I know - much easier said than done - but I think the possibility is there, now).
Another idea: Could this kind of software take a movie or still image, and "imagine" a three-d model from it? I don't see why not...
...and yes, I understand this software as being a particular form of a neural network, and that for any of this it takes massive compute power in the form of multiple-GPU time and a ton of memory - and likely isn't yet in the realm of doing it yourself at home except in simpler examples - which might still take days or weeks to train, and a good amount of time to render; I just want to indicate that I have a certain minor level of understanding of what this software is about and that I don't believe for a second that it is a basic "photoshop" filtering system.