obliviousness

Radiolab just re-posted a 2017 episode on technologies for creating fake audio and video, and I noticed something this time that I missed when I first heard it. The Radiolab reporters say that the people creating such technologies “aren’t worried” about its potential abuse, but that’s not quite accurate. They haven’t thought about it. Listening to them try to answer questions about such potential — actually, inevitable — abuse, you can tell that the subject has never crossed their minds.