It recently occurred to me that future generations just won't really believe anything they see. Did you ever believe a painting must have been accurate reflection of reality? It is, in fact, us that are unusual in that, for a short few decades, we actually believed photographs (and other recordings) to be indisputably true. Deepfakes are just resetting it back to the way it was before photographs.<p>Is this a bad thing? Is the photograph really a cornerstone of our civilisation?<p>It's not even just about deepfakes. Photographs taken by must smartphones are already heavily embellished <i>by default</i>. With just a few extra taps you can remove unwanted members of the public from your pictures. It's all fake, and the generations growing up with it will understand photographs just like we understand paintings. Nice, but not <i>true</i>.