Reality Defender’s Post

It appears that the penalty for deepfaking the sitting president at scale is $1 million. Regardless of political figure or party affiliation, this seems like a relatively low figure for causing intentional disinformation with the express intent of dissuading citizens from voting — all done with a voice #deepfake. I implore our elected officials to reconsider the ramifications of such harmful incidents on a macro and micro scale and adjust the penalties accordingly — lest they actually want to put a comparatively paltry price on spreading such disinformation within reach of bad actors.