Deepfakes Are Going to Wreak Havoc on Society. We Are Not Prepared

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First Amendment and fair use issues mean that lots of deepfakes will not be illegal, in case we were interested. There doesn’t seem to be a way to prepare except to start distrusting things now, which just accelerates the era of distrust.

Any ideas for preparation?

Stop worshipping authority, and revert back to individual critical thinking and verifiable proof.

Verifiable proof means no recommendation algorithms, retweets, embedded videos- just seeing and hearing things clearly in person. Which might be what we need. But probably we need some additional tools in case most of humanity doesn’t take that advice.

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