Indeed, this talk OpenAI does is basically security through obscurity, and it's holding us back. Look at how often people make noise with screenshots of tweets or emails that never happened. You don't need photorealism or fancy machine learning for that, and it creates a lot of problems! If they weren't pretending that all we need is to put some yellow tape around machine learning, maybe there would be some interest in solving this type of stuff properly. But you don't need "AI" for that. You just need public awareness and some basic, pre-existing cryptography knowledge.

Well sure, I think that's dangerous too. I think more people should be skeptical of the images and content they consume in addition to it being a problem that truth is harder to discern.

Like every new technology that came before, it’s a tool that will be used for good and for nefarious purposes. Some tools are powertools. There will be new benefits, but be prepared for a new raft of modern problems.

Photoshop is a pistol, this thing is a gatling gun.

We are already living at a gatling gun level of content, from any individuals perspective into the web.

We are way past that. If anything, trivialising and democratising the generation of fake content, will educate the masses. Perhaps, bring back the trust for science, which we need a lot.