Beyond geopolitical concerns - as the tech becomes more widespread and easier to use, to the point where teenagers start using it to punk one another, no one will believe anything they see, hear or read ever again without an extremely robust digital provenance system (and who built that system? are they to be trusted? does it rely on intrusive measures? etc)
It's great the developers and researchers are taking pause - this is great tech that could be used positively and creatively in so many areas - and with any new tech comes pain from misuse.
If history is anything to go by, legislation is likely catch up slightly too late to stop the cultural impact, be overly broad, drag in a lot of relatively harmless outliers, undermine the positive use-cases and won't deter dedicated high-stakes bad actors.
It's great the developers and researchers are taking pause - this is great tech that could be used positively and creatively in so many areas - and with any new tech comes pain from misuse.
If history is anything to go by, legislation is likely catch up slightly too late to stop the cultural impact, be overly broad, drag in a lot of relatively harmless outliers, undermine the positive use-cases and won't deter dedicated high-stakes bad actors.