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Deepfakes were always one of the scariest parts of modern technology. "Freedom of the press is the privilege of those who own one", and all that follows from this.
I fear that the only durable solution is for the technological tower to collapse such that it is no longer possible to gather the amount of energy and rare metals required to run generative AI. Maybe it's a part of me that just wants the internet from the 2000s back, but I think there's a lot we could do for everyone's quality of life if the profit motive was no longer able to be applied to information technology.
Climate change is likely to make that a reality, or at least close to it. A shame about everything else that comes with it.
Idk I feel technology will be the one thing to persist. Countries may be submerged, hospitals, food, clean water etc may all become fucked, but somewhere in the world technology will develop and persist.
Nuclear winter is the only thing threatening technology and even then it probably just stops for a while and once the ruling class gets out of their silos the same shit continues.