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Only people who believe they'd benefit from regulating deepfakes are some high profile and/or internet narcissists.
"Boohoo someone made a video of Trump's hemorrhoids and Biden licking them" Everyone already knows you can easily fake some video without using "AI" for it, we have a whole fucking industry for it pumping hundred movies out every Saturday. We already know you shouldn't believe everything you see.
Goes a bit beyond that nowadays. Deep fakes can be used to create false evidence for example
Deepfakes are already being used on an industrial scale for scams and conning people.
It's not a case of them needing regulating because they offend peoples sensibilities, it's because they're actively being used to harm people.
The past month or so I've started encountering quite a few deepfakes on dating sites. I honestly can't tell they're deepfakes just by looking; the only reason I've realised tell is because they were very obviously Instagram model photos. I reverse image searched them to find where they were taken from and confirm my suspicions that the profile's using stolen photos, only to find that the original photos aren't quite the same. It'll be the exact same shot with the same body but a different face, and with identifying tattoos removed, moles adds, etc.
If they weren't obvious modelling shots that made me want to reverse image search them, I wouldn't have known at all. It makes me wonder how many deepfaked images I've encountered on dating sites already and just not known about because they've been fairly innocuous-looking photos...