These are good of examples of why all the pearl-clutching around LLM's potential for deep-fakery are likely overblown. We've been dealing with fakery for millenia. Some new tech comes around, we get fooled a few times, then quickly get wise to the con.
To be clear, the pearl-clutching serves an important function, to raise awareness of the threat so that we can more quickly/effectively mitigate it. But many people take it much farther than that, calling for govt intervention or for companies to halt work until certain under-specified goals can be achieved.
Yep. It's good that individual human people can do this now. Only nation states and large corporations/institutions being able to was a bad state of things. The alterations used to be only done for non-human person reasons and were rare enough people actually fell for them.
To be clear, the pearl-clutching serves an important function, to raise awareness of the threat so that we can more quickly/effectively mitigate it. But many people take it much farther than that, calling for govt intervention or for companies to halt work until certain under-specified goals can be achieved.