AI deepfakes threaten to upend global elections. No one can stop them.
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Drudge Report— Deepfakes threaten to upend elections. No one can stop them (First column, 9th story, link) Related stories:AI can predict political orientations from blank faces
Reading Eagle—Will AI deepfakes and robocalls upset the 2024 election?. Americans are both susceptible to and suspicious of artificial intelligence.
Los Angeles Times—Will hackers, trolls and AI deepfakes upset the 2024 election?. In the analog days of the 1970s, long before hackers, trolls and edgelords, an audiocassette company came up with an advertising slogan that posed a trick question: “Is it live or is it Memorex?” The message toyed with reality, suggesting there was no difference in sound quality between a live performance and music recorded on tape. Fast forward to our age of metaverse lies and deceptions, and one might ask similar questions about what’s real and what’s not: Is President Biden on a robocall...
The Guardian—Can AI image generators be policed to prevent explicit deepfakes of children?. As one of the largest ‘training’ datasets has been found to contain child sexual abuse material, can bans on creating such imagery be feasible?Child abusers are creating AI-generated “deepfakes” of their targets in order to blackmail them into filming their own abuse, beginning a cycle of sextortion that can last for years.Creating simulated child abuse imagery is illegal in the UK, and Labour and the Conservatives have aligned on the desire to ban all explicit AI-generated images of real...