Also, it’s hard to see why forging videos should be so much worse than forging images through Photoshop, forging documents through whatever document-forgers do, or forging text through lying. Brookings explains that deepfakes might cause nuclear war because someone might forge a video of the President ordering a nuclear strike and then commanders might believe it. But it’s unclear why this is so much more plausible than someone writing a memo saying “Please launch a nuclear strike, sincerely, the President” and commanders believing that. Other papers have highlighted the danger of creating a fake sex tape with a politician in order to discredit them, but you can already convincingly Photoshop an explicit photo of your least favorite politician, and everyone will just laugh at you.
Regarding deep fakes:
Scott Alexander wrote about it:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/30/book-review-human-compatible/
This part stuck with me: