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[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

A lot of "news" stories online are exactly like that. I think it is because they are written by bots. The bots source a story and rewrite it and repost it. Given the fact that deep fakes exists it is entirely possible that some of those content creators are bots.

[–]LarrySwinger2 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I don't think we're there quite yet. There's an endless supply of people who will comply with Youtube's changing algorithm in an attempt to escape their regular job, so it feels natural that people will make such videos. The idea that deep fakes are actually applied to the extent you're proposing, on the other hand, is very speculative. Also, it's very difficult to create a realistic deepfake. Check out this video.