Most people don't even know what AI is. I've had to educate my parents that the technology to not only clone my voice, but my face.. is in existence. Pair that with number spoofing, and you have a recipe for disaster to scam people.
We give too much credit to ordinary people. All these bleeding-edge advancements in AI, code, databases, and technology are things a user on HNews would be aware of. However, most peers in regular jobs, parents, children, et al., would be susceptible to being fooled on social media. They're not going to say... "hmm, let me fact-check and see if the sources are correct and that this wasn't created by AI."
They'll simply see an inflammatory tweet from their leader on Twitter.
This is insane. Even though there are open-source models, I think this is too dangerous to release to the public. If someone would've uploaded that Tokyo video to youtube, and told me it was a drone.. I would've believed them.
All "proof" we have can be contested or fabricated.