Deepfakes and the Degradation of Truth

Charles Spurgeon singing! Frederick Douglass moving! Tom Cruise playing golf on TikTok!

If you’ve seen any of these things online, you’ve encountered an amusing and significant new technology: deepfakes. While deepfake technology, powered by artificial intelligence, may have been in the limelight in recent months, this technology is not that new. It is just becoming more believable and more accessible to the public.

Recently we saw this technology used by a 50-year-old Japanese biker to tr...