Comment by Gary Marcus

Anybody's appearance can (given sufficient data) be faked now, at any time, for almost nothing. Because the tools for counterfeiting have gotten so good, 2026 will almost certainly see more deepfaked scams like this than the rest of history combined. [...] Tell your representatives today, not tomorrow, that we must pass federal laws forbidding machine output from being presented as humans, and that we must develop the means to enforce those laws. Unverified source (2026)