The more I read about synthesized audio and video, the more I think that Deepfakes represent the Great Filter.

No society can progress beyond a certain point, because it eventually becomes trivial and inexpensive to produce damning evidence on anybody, for anything.

Criminal justice systems that rely on evidence are now unreliable, and once again can be inexpensively used to dispose of unwanted people, especially those who cannot afford a defense to prove the evidence is fake.