Unfortunately I don't even think that would work on the people we'd want it to work on.
Oligarchs are so powerful that this shit wouldn't work on them; Trump for example was so scandal-proof that no deepfake would have hurt his credibility among people who didn't already hate him. Meanwhile the oligarchs don't even need to use deepfakes to discredit left-wing figures on the flimsiest basis (e.g. the Corbyn antisemitism smear, Operation Carwash).
It will be restored to its true purpose of blackmailing oligarchs and inserting Chris Pratt into the Sound of Music
Unfortunately I don't even think that would work on the people we'd want it to work on.
Oligarchs are so powerful that this shit wouldn't work on them; Trump for example was so scandal-proof that no deepfake would have hurt his credibility among people who didn't already hate him. Meanwhile the oligarchs don't even need to use deepfakes to discredit left-wing figures on the flimsiest basis (e.g. the Corbyn antisemitism smear, Operation Carwash).
That's not true. You're not thinking creatively enough- they could deepfake him being woke or anti white or gay or weak
Rachel Maddow furiously deepfaking Trump and Putin into a gay sex scene to the (non-sexual) salivation of liberals everywhere