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 mean, get into an argument online with anyone and there's a better than even chance that you'll be called a bot or a shill or some other secret agent of some nefarious force (or maybe you're the one who will have a sneaking suspicion that your interlocutor works for the CIA). unreality is the default setting of the internet. the only solution, and I'm sorry to sound like a broken record, is to log off.
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idk if you're being facetious, but the argument I'm trying to make is that reducing humans to disembodied posts plus a profile pic necessarily engenders paranoia distrust, and yea alienation.