by Karl Denninger, Market Ticker:
It has long been “de-rigueur” to attempt to prank someone in a command position of some sort on the phone with a “fake call.” Historically this is not the easiest thing to pull off but it has been done with some of the funniest being perpetrated by radio hosts of various sorts.
Today this threat is much-more serious; so-called “machine learning” can now, for virtually anyone who has their voice and image out in the public where it can be harvested, used to “mimic” said person not only over audio but video as well.
The world’s most famous and highly honored investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, on 8 February 2023, headlined at his blog 
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, I originally thought you were just a Putin supporter. Yet as time has gone by, it is becoming very clear that you are correct and that Zelensky is waging this war for the West to conquer Russia. His meeting with the Pope and rejecting his offer to mediate clearly established he will not seek peace. Are we headed into a nuclear war? Did Ukraine really shoot down a Russian hypersonic missile?
