An urgent proposal to make AI-generated fake people illegal

Philosopher Daniel C. Dennett argued in The Atlantic that fake AI-generated people represent a threat to economies, freedom, and civilization so great, their use should be immediately made illegal. Link here (paywall).

Today, for the first time in history, thanks to artificial intelligence, it is possible for anybody to make counterfeit people who can pass for real in many of the new digital environments we have created.