cheap, easy, and coming for the 2024 election
How am I supposed to tell them apart from a real politician
Deepfakes tend to stick to their message and be less duplicitous.
Coming? Mon Ami they’re already here, and I mean literally here, like on Lemmy, Hacker News, and Reddit, on top of all of the other common social media platforms.
Wait you mean that Biden and Trump weren’t really holding hands and eating piles of spaghetti together?
Deepfake videos were WIDELY used in the latest Argentina presidential election. The most known video was one featuring the runner-up candidate snorting coke, yelling “oh this shit is gooood”. He was called “coke-head” by Milei’s party during the entire campaign.
It’s like a license to do and say dumb shit  with constant plausible deniability now. Fun times people back like it used to be.
The wild west.
Is that why Indians keep trying to rob me.
Make it illegal
Robocalls are already illegal and yet they never stop blowing up my phone.
At some point, you actually have to enforce this shit. And, between the Pentagon budget and the NSA and the FBI and the State Police and the Municipal Police and the DEA and the CIA and the DHS and the TSA and the FCC… fuck, we just don’t have the money in the budget to stop a phone bank in Manila operating on $2/hr wages from bombarding everyone’s cell phones with automated spam 24/7/365.
