Making deepfake tools doesn’t have to be irresponsible. Here’s how. - MIT Technology Review

The costs of deepfake technology are not just theoretical. Synthetic face-swap videos harass journalists into silence; synthetic voices are being used for large fraudulent transactions, and synthetic faces have allegedly supported espionage. All of that is in spite of the current challenges of using hacked-together beta-quality software. The obstacles to using synthetic media are still too high for the technology to be compelling to most malicious actors—but as it moves from buggy betas and into the hands of billions of people, we have a responsibility to avoid worst-case scenarios by making it as hard as possible to use deepfakes for evil. How?