Deepfakes: ‘A lost cause’

Deepfake videos have been weaponized “to harass and humiliate women” with fake porn, said Terrence O’Brien in Engadget.com, and there’s no solution in sight. Actress Scarlett Johansson, among the most prominent victims of the technology, says that it has gotten so bad that trying to fight the deepfakes is “a lost cause.” “You want to tear everything off the internet,” Johansson says, “But you can’t.”