What's Wrong with Deepfakes?

Deepfake technology gives us the ability to produce realistic looking and sounding video or audio files of people doing or saying things they did not do or say. It has caused widespread consternation, and significant legislative action, with the criminalization of non-consensual sharing of deepfake sexualized images, and recent proposals to extend this to the mere creation of such images. But what, if anything, is wrong with deepfakes? Adrienne de Ruiter [article attached, in MeetUps] argues that, while a deepfake need not be wrong in itself, it is nevertheless morally suspect, for it raises issues of consent, deception and intention. How good is her argument?

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