Well written, thanks! I like how you build up with useful explanations but also quickly get to the gist.

You’re either telling people that they should trust a fake that they might have been skeptical about otherwise, or you’re slandering something real.

This insight scares me. Deep Fakes are About to Change Everything (Johnny Harris) also went over this. Maybe the biggest threat is not that indistinguishable deep fakes become possible (which is scary enough on it’s own), but that trust in real documents is eroded easily. The example in the video: A bad deep fake of a politician pops up and is discarded, but some amount of distrust and skepticism about actually real documents sticks. It seems we’re doubling down on post-truth society.