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There is already a large problem with political ads cherry picking and slicing audio and video to cheat viewers. I really worry that deep fakes will take it to another level completely. I fully expect the current administration to eagerly adopt it if available.

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I just assume if a politician is speaking they are lying, at best misleading. Add in marketing, I assume it is a lie, regardless of political party.

You still lose. There are players who don't need you to believe them, as it is sufficient for them if people cannot trust each other.

People have been impersonating politicians' accents pretty well for decades, mostly for comedy value, without tripping over sentence structures and pronunciation (unless that's the joke...)

Other than lowering the effort bar, I'm not sure what deepfakes add. Sure, it means someone can make Donald Trump reading copypasta[1] or Dubya rapping [2] without knowing how to do impressions or even speaking the language natively, but a competent voice actor could do a much better job of putting words into politicians' mouths, and one thing political ads don't lack is budget.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEzIAixNkFI 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEzIAixNkFI

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