i think the hope is by the next presidential election no one will trust video anymore anyway so the new normal wont be as chaotic as if the dropped in the middle of an already contentious election.
as for not building it at all its a obvious next step in generative ai models that if they don't make it someone else will anyway.
I'd give it about 20 years before humanoid robots can be indistinguishable from originals without an x-ray or similar — covering them in vat-grown cultures of real human skin etc. is already possible but the robots themselves aren't good enough to fool anyone.
unfortunately that would mean two firstly things only swing states would get to hear what politicians are actually saying and secondly to reach everyone the primary process would have to start even earlier so the candidates would have a chance to give enough speeches before early voting
Even if Kamala wins (praise be to god that she does), those people aren't just going to go away until social media does. Social media is the cause of a lot of the conspiracy theory mania.
So yeah, better to never release the model...even though Elon would in a second if he had it.
as for not building it at all its a obvious next step in generative ai models that if they don't make it someone else will anyway.