> Important to note that it is also possible for a technology to have more potential for abuse than good.
This is never the case independent of context.
You can imagine in a major famine that people may start killing each other over scraps of food. In that context a kitchen knife becomes more likely to be used as a murder weapon than to prepare the food that nobody actually has.
But nothing about the knife has changed, it's the context that has changed. And you don't solve the problem by banning cutlery and every other thing with a point or some heft, you solve it by resolving the famine.
You don't solve deepfakes by restricting information, you do it by adapting to their existence. Because they're not going away.
This is never the case independent of context.
You can imagine in a major famine that people may start killing each other over scraps of food. In that context a kitchen knife becomes more likely to be used as a murder weapon than to prepare the food that nobody actually has.
But nothing about the knife has changed, it's the context that has changed. And you don't solve the problem by banning cutlery and every other thing with a point or some heft, you solve it by resolving the famine.
You don't solve deepfakes by restricting information, you do it by adapting to their existence. Because they're not going away.