I’m watching myself on YouTube saying things I would never say. This is the deepfake menace we must confront | Yanis Varoufakis | The Guardian

Yanis Varoufakis discusses the emergence of deepfakes on YouTube, which depict him saying things he never said, raising concerns about the erosion of authenticity and the potential for misinformation. He explores the dual nature of deepfakes, which can both incite rage and foster optimism, as they may compel people to think more critically about debate and democracy. Varoufakis argues that while deepfakes highlight the dangers of technofeudalism, they also offer a paradoxical hope for the revival of genuine discourse, or isegoria, where the merit of arguments is judged independently of the speaker.