Keejazz
I would never downwote for such things, personally. I found your TL:DR to be good (including more information as well as replaying the mains of the article is great value, thank you!) to care about small stuff mentioned above. But you seemed to want to understand why some have downvoted, and as I got a bit of negative reaction from the parts mentioned, I thought I could explain my feelings for them, in the hopes this might actually be useful for you.
There is absolutely nothing new, added to this discussion, by this article. It also seem gender provocative and charged, as the article choose to exclude male deepfakes as an equal probable problem, without even commenting on it? I suspect deepfakes to be just as valid for turning voters, blackmail, false imprisonment, and the likes - and that would include both genders.
This feels like bait/trash journalism, to me - On a topic that is worth a real discussion, in regard to real life problems,
This is not very costly, unless you need to scan specific enterprise systems that can not be emulated, and are beyond ones price range - to buy to learn.
There are also platforms like tryhackme, hackthebox etc., that offer both free and paid networks, on which one can legally scan.