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DeepFake technology democratizes the ability to produce believable fakes. Before only countries and large institutions could do so.



And that may not be a good thing. Now we won't just hear the occasional lying about WMD in far-away-country, which is bad, but if your government wants to trick you, they'll succeed nonetheless. Now it can easily be the idiot neighbor who fakes some nonsense about you and can damage your reputation for life with the right tools, until the general public has caught up and understands that a video can't be trusted anymore.




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