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How Much Should We Worry about Deep Fakes?

by Jeffrey Westling

Sept 16, 2019

issues: Technology and Innovation

originally published in Human Progress

From Human Progress:

Jeffrey Westling at Techdirt does an excellent job walking through some of the history of technological deception and cultural adaptation.

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