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The future is scary.

* deepfake can superimpose a face on another face

* Adobe is developing a program to make a voice say anything (from a couple of hours of voice input)

* this can sync you mouth to the new voice generated by adobe.

Combine all three.

Eh, it won't be so bad. People are already accustomed to the fact that text, handwriting, and images can be easily faked. Voices can already be convincingly faked with practice prior to software assistance and there are lots of classes of videos can be faked with effort like security footage.

People aren't dumb and it'll only take a few good fakes to get people to distrust videos not attached to a reputable source.

doesn't all the controversy around fake news support the exact opposite of your claims that people are smart enough to only listen to reputable sources?

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