Deepfake

Deepfake is an AI-based technology used to produce or alter video content so that it presents something that didn't, in fact, occur. Photo editing software, such as Photoshop, has long been used to falsify images, and the public is learning to apply common sense and critical thinking when presented with a picture whose content seems unlikely. However, until recently, video content has been more difficult to alter in any substantial way. As such, video has often been considered proof that something actually happened.

This could actually be used as them most dangerous weapon known to mankind. If somebody out there decided to make a video of trump declaring war on china, that he had already issued orders to nuke their country and that video went viral and china's government saw it before anyone could disclaim it, that would be a real problem for the whole world.

Let's say you wanted somebody else's boyfriend/girlfriend, you make a fake video of one of the couple making out with a different person.  They fight and break up, leaving you to swoop in as a shoulder to cry on.

The problem here is not with the technology involved, it is humanity itself that is the issue. Guns do not shoot people, a person using the gun shoots another person, people shoot people. The gun is only a tool. The same goes with technology, which is not the problem, it's the user that is abusing the tech that is the problem. 

Scott Goerz