When we first started hearing about deepfakes, it was easy to dismiss the notion that they could be dangerous. To be fair, in those days the deepfakes that did see the light of day were so glitch and so obviously fake that it wasn't hard to be dismissive of their potential. After all, at the time the concept sounded more like something out of the old Nicholas Cage and John Travolta movie "Face-Off", just an interesting bit of science fiction.