The real danger of deep fakery

[etoven]

The very first thought I had when I heard about deep fake was this: "Oh great, now every single time a politician says or does something horrible on camera, everyone is going to cry out "deep fake, it's all just CG!".  As evidence, flat earthers literally believe every single photo and video of the earth from space is CG, especially the ones before CG was ever detailed enough to make an image like that.

I'm apparently not alone in that fear.  This is a tech we are not ready for, but even if the tech was erased right now, the knowledge that it's possible at all has already done all the damage.

I am having to wave off those very questions now since I work in IT.

And now flat earthers think we had sophisticated machine learning before we even had modern computers.
It takes our most powerful chipsets today hours to complete deep fakes.

Some fun trivia, the Apollo computer had RAM registers so large you could see them with the naked eye.
Today couldn't even fit a single email inside the thing, to say nothing for a machine learning model (or neural net).

That's just banna shit crazy.

Apollo guidance RAM chip.