Deepfakes Reduce Belief Change Rather Than Spreading Falsehoods

Contrary to the common worry that deepfakes will make people believe many false things, the equilibrium effect is that people change their minds even less—since anything disconfirming one's worldview can be dismissed as AI-generated—while a hopeful counterforce is that current AI systems are fairly reliable and hard to bias without breaking them (as the Grok 'mecha-Hitler' episode showed), so people may increasingly just ask a reasonably truthful AI to adjudicate.