Deepfakes are getting good. People complain about these being used for propaganda, while ignoring the giant piles of propaganda around us all, all the time, from every direction to maintain the status quo.
Like, sure, ban or label deepfakes, or whatever. But by that logic, you'd have to ban CNN
I'm not sure if it's more unsettling or less unsettling because it's Tom Cruise, who's already the human embodiment of the uncanny valley
It would be amazing if this was actually Tom Cruise just fucking with people as some sort of Scientology stunt or something.