Yes, but who cares whose responsible? Are you telling me you're going to find the guy who photoshopped the picture and jail him? Legally that's possible, realistically it's a fiction.

They did this to stop bad PR, because some people are convinced that an AI making pictures is in some way dangerous to society. It is not. We have deepfakes already. We've had photoshop for so long. There is no danger. Even if there was, the cat's out of the bag already.

Reasonable people already know to distrust photographic evidence nowadays that is not corroborated. The ones who don't would believe it without the photo regardless.

there will and are million ways to create a photorealistic picture of Joe Biden killing a priest using modern tools, and absolutely nothing will happen if someone did.

We've been through this many times, with books, with movies, with video games, with Internet. If it *can* be used for porn / violence etc., it will be, but it won't be the main use case and it won't cause some societal upheaval. Kids aren't running around pulling cops out of cars GTA-style, Internet is not ALL PORN, there is deepfake porn, but nobody really cares, and so on. There are so many ways to feed those dark urges that censorship does nothing except prevent normal use cases that overlap with the words "violence" or "sex" or "politics" or whatever the boogeyman du jour is.

You know what else is being used to deny war crimes? Censorship. Do you know how that's officially described? "Safety"

Russia has.. a history of denying the obvious. I come from an ex-communist satellite state so I would know. The majority of the people know what's happening. There's a rather new joke from COVID: the Russians do not take Moderna because Putin says not to trust it, and they do not take Sputnik because Putin says to trust it.

Do not be deluded that our own governments are not manufacturing the narrative too. The US has committed just as many war crimes as Russia. Of course, people feel differently about blowing up hospitals in Afghanistan rather than Ukraine. What the Afghan people think about that is not considered too much.

> The US almost had a coup because of organized hatred and lies spread through social media.

But notice how all of these deep faking technologies weren't actually necessary for that.

People believe what they want to believe. Regardless of quality of provided evidence.

Scaremongering idea of deep fakes and what they can be doing was militarized in this information war way more than the actual technology.

I think this technology should develop unrestricted so society can learn what can be done and what can't be done. And create understanding what other factors should be taken into account when assesing veracity of images and recordings (like multiple angles, quality of the recording, sync with sound, neural fake detection algorithms) for the cases when it's actually important what words someone said and what actions he was recorded doing. Which is more and more unimportant these days because nobody cared what Trump was doing and saying, nobody cares about Bidens mishaps and nobody cares what comes out of Putins mouths and how he chooses his greenscreen backgrounds.