I'm not sure this kind of thing can be stopped. It's like a war on drugs or a global nuclear decommissioning.

I'm not sure we ever should have trusted "information channels.". But - it's scary to think the majority of primary information sources like academic research will be "deep faked." It'd probably send us back to a relatively primitive information state where who you're getting your information from, and who they get it from, and so on, becomes abnormally relevant. We'd effectively lose the ability to learn via 2nd hand, 3rd hand, ... , nth hand information.

What makes my work fulfilling (and I assume most other work) is that I can't rely on it being done the way I want it to be done otherwise. If I'm only doing my job because regulators prevent AI from doing it, I will lose the fulfillment anyway. Regulating away AI would ironically make life a video game - where we are pretending X/Y/Z things need to be done by us but don't.

Fundamentally, we all want our lives to be easier - more comfort, luxury, safety, etc - and the end state of that is we replace our lives with machine life. Society has been experiencing this dissonance since the dawn of tools and will experience it until the ultimate tool, our replacement, is built.