@davidbcohen @briankrebs Chris Morris pretty much did that in the late 90s in the UK with his series "Brass Eye". They got celebs and politicians to read out ridiculous statements on camera. One MP was sufficiently fooled that he gave a speech in Parliament about the evils of a drug called "Cake" that affected the brain region known as Shatner's Bassoon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_Eye

@deviantollam @briankrebs I've been testifying to Colorado legislative committees in support of a bill working through the statehouse to regulate deepfake AI in electioneering communications (https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1147) and I'm planning to testify to a Senate committee about this in the coming week.

I'm definitely referencing this video in my testimony. It's the canonical example of the danger this guardrail-free tech poses to our very basic understanding of what constitutes "ground truth" - once this reaches a quality level where artefacts are eliminated, how will we ever trust any recorded audio or video ever again? And it isn't hard to imagine how political candidates, or malicious political operatives, will abuse this in myriad ways.