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The young woman is Audrey Hepburn.
This has massively significant implications on our perception of the world in which we live, in ways nobody really talks about. But we'll come back to Audrey later.
It doesn't always seem like it, but humans are innately trusting.
Whether an evolutionary development designed to make functioning as a social group easier, or a vestige of thousands of generations of religious thinking, deep down our automatic position is that most people - most of the time - are telling the truth.
This is a natural inclination that tyrants have understood - and taken advantage of - for centuries.
But however much trust we innately place in others, there's something we all trust more - our own eyes.
We are visual creatures, and once somebody has seen something - or believes they have seen something - it is almost impossible to convince them they haven't.
And, these days, would-be tyrants can take advantage of that too.
Unfortunately, the necessary and primal trust our brains have in our eyes lags behind the ability of technology to confound them.
Deep Faking is, as most of us know, a video editing trick that can seamlessly replace one face with another. It's not especially difficult, or expensive. All you need is the replacee to have a passing superficial resemblance to the replacer, a good number of photos showing different facial positions and the right computer software.
4chan "shitposters" do it from the comfort of their own bedrooms for a laugh, replacing porn star faces with those of actresses, celebrities, politicians, and Nicolas Cage.
Simply put, by the very nature of what it is, deep fake technology must make every video showing any face to some degree suspect.
Comment: We are supposed to pay it 'no mind'.