Fully agree with you here! Especially about the deep fakes. I think this election season in America is going to be the test bed for the nefarious purposes of AI images and video. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the video that can be generated is surreal right now, giving it a few months to mature in preparation for September combined with deep fakes to really change a lot of things on opinions. I don’t think this will affect The Donald but absolutely will affect the next round of candidates. If they don’t toe the line - deep fakes of all kinds of shit are going to be employed to destroy their reputations and chances of winning.
We are definitely heading in a strange direction. - I hope that we don’t end up like the people in the Disney movie, fat and connected to headsets in huge farms to keep people distracted while their whole world is stolen out from under them for control.
It's definitely a worry for the election. We have all been warned about deep fakes for ages yet I bet some of will fill for them too!!!