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You're a smart guy, and most people think that most people are like themselves, so you are optimistic about people adjusting their BS detectors. I don't worry terribly about deepfakes either, but broader society's adjustment to them will probably be a rougher road than we expect.
What do you make of e.g. the concern over Photoshop in the early 90s? Did the broader public have a hard time adjusting (because they weren’t smart enough)? Doesn’t seem like that to me, but I don’t really knowhttps://twitter.com/udayrsingh/status/1162816192903598080?s=21 …
But is it true that the concerns with photoshop weren't at least partially realized? Photoshop has made it easier to mislead people, from Instagram models to state propaganda. There's always a community that sees through the fakes but technology keeps raising the bar.
It would be less of a worry if people didn't have a propensity to automatically believe what they want to believe. Stephenson's idea of the internet becoming a Miasma of fake news doesn't seem implausible to me. Truth is often only accessible to a small minority as it is.
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