[puglr]

When this topic has come up with family and friends, folks often say that they aren't worried (yet) because while a human can be fooled, they can't yet fool readily available forensic tools, and perhaps can't ever.

I can't speak to the veracity of that claim, but as the post points out, the past several years has shown us that it doesn't matter, not in the least.

The author goes on to say how it feels inevitable that we'll see a Bannon or Stone type use this technology to create fake scandals.

I'm more worried about the grass roots efforts. Crowdsourced conspiracies like QAnon. Now they'll have more capable tools to radicalize people.