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In Defense of Deep Fakes

Nearly everyone in the technology community is worried about the near-term prospect of deep fakes destroying our trust in the media and our collective sense of reality.

That is understandable. When it becomes as easy to generate convincing fake media as it is to record reality, our ability to trust by default what we see and hear in the real world evaporates.  In this way the technology subverts our ability to function as a society.