Deepfakes are out there, but they aren’t where many people expected them to be. The election came and went with a spectacular fizzling out of the deepfake hype train. The biggest problem for the November election was disinformation, conspiracy theories, and outright manipulation going viral. The bright side is that it appears it appears the time for deepfakes to impact an electionany electionis gone. Many analysts suspect their best use is as an addition to scams, not the main feature.”]