Wrong move
I think this not well thought through. Existence of deepfakes is conducive to plausible deniability. Everyone will be able to deny any compromising image as false due to being product of deepfake AI. In effect the word “compromising” will lose meaning and any potential inflammatory value that deepfakes may have at the moment will be lost due to ease and prevalence with which such imagery could be generated. Furthermore, affected individuals will be in position to question validity of real images by flagging those as deepfakes. The whole concept of deepfakes will lose on sensationalism and value. Journalist will have to focus on undertaking real investigative work instead of relaying on a photographic evidence of “X accepting the potentially compromising envelope”. Due to the see with which garbage content can be generated the public will value more robust outputs and the whole business of deepfakes generation will reduce its own value to anonymous slander posted on obscure discussion boards.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
