1/ Interesting, albeit depressing story, but worth highlighting a few points.
Firstly, to a certain extent we are already in one of the circles of information hell and have been since at least 2016, long before deepfakes.
This is so so good and scary. “I can’t stand this place anymore,” he said. “These major tech giants will burn everything to the ground as long as they’re making a profit. They’re not interested in anything that’s going to slow them down.”
The World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes https://t.co/L8dil5znDy
16/ The alternative is to give up and go and live in a log cabin which, while increasingly attractive, I don’t think is the right thing to do just yet.