The Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes

Seems like a great opportunity to pitch my (optimistic) vision for the relationship between humans and digital media:

- Assume that we cannot trust anything we see on a screen (or listen on a speaker), *based on how real it looks to us*. I am convinced that perception of realness will not be a usefull heuristic for authenthicity anymore. For voice, we are already there as I see it, with images and videos, this is not far off anymore.

- That means that we should be fundamentally sceptic of digital media, until proven otherwise by other mechanisms

- One such mechanism is: Good, old trust between humans. I know you, you know me, we both are really confident that we are truthfull to each other. (You can also through cryptography into the mix to benefit from that trust more independently from time and space, for example by signing an email or a commit).

=> (Hopefull conclusion:) This might lead to us leaving our lives in a more human way again: Trust needs relationships, and relationships need time spent together and nurture.

=> Two nice sideeffects: A) Many methods of blackmail might cease to exist due to plausibly deniability, since many forms of evidence are digital and could therefore be fake B) Propaganda by means of digital media might become less effective, too