Photoshop and minor video manipulation is enough to trick people into believing fake news, this will make it harder. I see political parties doing simple edits to make people believe anything, this will push it multiple notches higher.
You really have low exceptions for humanity. Most people are not complete idiots you know. I think your opinion is pretty elitist. Or do you think you yourself will fall for this as well?
Bunch of people just stormed the Brazilian government buildings yesterday over a fake "election theft" narrative. This stuff will be constantly tuned until enough people do fall for it, like advertising.
There's also the unravelling biography of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santos#Scandals (you know someone's doing well when their "scandals" section has ten subheadings! And that's all old-fashioned manual fraud)
(I'm now wondering how far you could get with an elected official who's entirely deepfaked and only appears in recordings. Probably all the way to being sworn in, at which point someone has to appear in person. People have occasionally been elected despite being dead, so it's not impossible)
> Probably all the way to being sworn in, at which point someone has to appear in person. People have occasionally been elected despite being dead, so it's not impossible)
Unless the people doing the swearing in are also fake.
Or millions of people passively accepted the results of a stolen election. That would be an equally viable scenario with this technology. You just won't know the truth anymore.
It's not equally viable; there are centuries worth of checks and balances designed to prevent voting fraud and errors vs. the ease of speaking a lie on video.
If electoral boards around the country or at the national level were all sounding the alarm for irregularity in voting returns or procedures then an election might have been stolen. As it stands, the election results match the earlier polls which is a strong indicator that, at best, the election became a tossup at the time it was held, and the military also didn't find any reason to suspect fraud or error.
Less elitist(might really sound like one), more realist who knows that masses devolve to the lowest common denominator of sorts based on the information they are provided
>enough of them have been proven to be that this is a real concern
This matters a loooot more than the smart enough people realize too, because it's so difficult to imagine what it's like being south of that threshold, the potential consequences are difficult to imagine.
