Humans have such issues with confirmation bias [1] that I worry it's not going to matter.
The last election already had algorithmically generated artificial news designed to sway people (note: I'm talking FB articles with headlines like "$POLITICIAN just insulted $NICHE_AUDIENCE. STOP THEM." that linked to articles that were scraped/spun from other sources). They relied upon people not actually reading and just hitting like/forward/heart whatever and spreading the top level message.
We are not going to be able to convince ourselves, never mind other people, that video (which has been the gold standard for "truth" for nearly a century) isn't actually real.
Well hopefully there will be such an influx of fakes everywhere that people will at least begin to accept that anything can be faked, and hopefully take the next step of thinking a little more critically about what they hear next.
I see it going to the other extreme, where people believe anything can be faked, and politicians, criminal, etc start to dismiss evidence of their wrongdoings as fake, and people believe them.
The last election already had algorithmically generated artificial news designed to sway people (note: I'm talking FB articles with headlines like "$POLITICIAN just insulted $NICHE_AUDIENCE. STOP THEM." that linked to articles that were scraped/spun from other sources). They relied upon people not actually reading and just hitting like/forward/heart whatever and spreading the top level message.
We are not going to be able to convince ourselves, never mind other people, that video (which has been the gold standard for "truth" for nearly a century) isn't actually real.
Case in point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ54GDm1eL0 (which was included in the article) has comments from people deeply confused by it on YT.
1 - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont...