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Deepfaking it: America's 2024 election collides with AI boom (Reuters)
Reuters link: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/deepfaking-it-americas-2024-election-collides-with-ai-boom-2023-05-30/
"I actually like Ron DeSantis a lot," Hillary Clinton reveals in a surprise online endorsement video. "He's just the kind of guy this country needs, and I really mean that."
Joe Biden finally lets the mask slip, unleashing a cruel rant at a transgender person. "You will never be a real woman," the president snarls. Welcome to America's 2024 presidential race, where reality is up for grabs.
The Clinton and Biden deepfakes - realistic yet fabricated videos created by AI algorithms trained on copious online footage - are among thousands surfacing on social media, blurring fact and fiction in the polarized world of U.S. politics.
While such synthetic media has been around for several years, it's been turbocharged over the past year by of a slew of new "generative AI" tools such as Midjourney that make it cheap and easy to create convincing deepfakes, according to Reuters interviews with about two dozen specialists in fields including AI, online misinformation and political activism.
Joe Biden finally lets the mask slip, unleashing a cruel rant at a transgender person. "You will never be a real woman," the president snarls. Welcome to America's 2024 presidential race, where reality is up for grabs.
The Clinton and Biden deepfakes - realistic yet fabricated videos created by AI algorithms trained on copious online footage - are among thousands surfacing on social media, blurring fact and fiction in the polarized world of U.S. politics.
While such synthetic media has been around for several years, it's been turbocharged over the past year by of a slew of new "generative AI" tools such as Midjourney that make it cheap and easy to create convincing deepfakes, according to Reuters interviews with about two dozen specialists in fields including AI, online misinformation and political activism.
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Deepfaking is already happening NOW and it will be an epidemic by next year.
We'll all need to be very careful about what we post here on DU.
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Deepfaking it: America's 2024 election collides with AI boom (Reuters) (Original Post)
FakeNoose
Jun 2023
OP
Basically, anything from Facebook, Twitter, or TikTok is going to be suspect.
TheRealNorth
Jun 2023
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TheRealNorth
(9,435 posts)1. Basically, anything from Facebook, Twitter, or TikTok is going to be suspect.
FakeNoose
(32,356 posts)3. I agree - we'll need new rules about reposting anything from those cesspools
royable
(1,263 posts)2. Trust only face to face conversations with sane people
Except for the evil sane people who lie for a living.