digitally altered to make it look like him. kind of funny, right? but also scary how believable it is. how many more like them are proliferating every day. these questions are provoked by a new study that suggests today's technology has gotten so good it's capable of creating things indistinguishable from reality. even more believable. from the national academy of sciences usa. and it suggests that people are easily fooled by faces that are machine generated finding them more trustworthy than actual faces. and as noted, the potential weaponization in disinformation campaigns for political or other gain. the creation of false porn for blackmail. and any other manipulations of forms of abuse and fraud. in a world where anything can be fake, you can deny it as manufactured even if legitimately captured on video.