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We just hit the deepfake-denial singularity

Claim: "That video evidence of me saying something bad was a deepfake!" I've been predicting this for years. But I never predicted Elon Musk would do it.

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Mike Elgan
Apr 28, 2023
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Deepfake panic — the fear that AI-generated video will falsely implicate notable people by showing them doing or saying something they didn’t do or say — is less of a threat than reverse-deepfake panic: The claim that true video evidence is just a deepfake and therefore can be dismissed.

I’ve been predicting for years that when politicians, celebrities …

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