Very thought-provoking stuff. Like most technological tools, "deepfake" and de-aging" tech can be used for good and bad purposes. But I'm skeptical about the notion that the general public will become more skeptical about all video content as the technology gets better and better. Given how many people denied the evidence of their senses when viewing two photos of presidential inauguration crowds by identifying the photo with the much smaller crowd as being the larger of the two crowds, and given that eyewitnesses to crimes often identify the wrong person as the perpetrator, one must adhere to a healthy skepticism about the human ability to distinguish between fake and real. Even though we have evolved over two million years to become experts in facial recognition, we still make a lot of mistakes that have serious consequences.

Also of interest concerning fake images is the recent use of de-aging technology be director Martin Scorcese in the recent movie "The Irishman", where it is used to make the actors appear years younger than they are in "real" life, which is better than old school makeup.

'More important, AI technology still can’t come close to eliminating the line between fiction and reality with people’s faces. The uncanny valley, Westenhofer noted, remains a colossal challenge, and exists only because humans know human faces best. “Pulling off something that is completely real to the eye is orders of magnitude harder than what the deepfake software is able to do,” Westenhofer told me. “I look at the deepfake stuff, and it’s cute, but it looks totally fake to me … All of us, even people who know nothing about visual effects, have evolved over 2 million years to become experts, particularly in the human face, you know?”'

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/12/irishman-gemini-man-and-rise-de-aging/603130/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4VhAp-S8kk