the target isn’t people in power, the target of these tools is the general population. disinformation combined lack of critical thinking is already bad enough just with the posting of carefully cropped, edited, or out of context media, when the new tools can create realistic video with voice matched audio, more people will be fooled - plenty of them will happily believe whatever reinforces their existing position.
the target isn’t people in power, the target of these tools is the general population. disinformation combined lack of critical thinking is already bad enough just with the posting of carefully cropped, edited, or out of context media, when the new tools can create realistic video with voice matched audio, more people will be fooled - plenty of them will happily believe whatever reinforces their existing position.
Also if someone in power gets caught doing something bad they could muddy the waters saying it was AI and fake content.