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Deep fakes are going to start becoming part of our news, our entertainment, and our justice systems. "Fake news" a few years ago was just cherry picked data and skewed graphs, now the probability of any piece of media being completely fabricated is within a range to consciously consider.

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I’d argue they’ve been here for a while and we just called it “cinema”. Remember all the superimposed historical scenes from Forrest Gump?

The technology got easier, everyone became a publisher, and now we have a more prickly name for it.

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