Posted on 05/30/2023 4:50:51 AM PDT by FarCenter
"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.
"It's going to be very difficult for voters to distinguish the real from the fake. And you could just imagine how either Trump supporters or Biden supporters could use this technology to make the opponent look bad," said Darrell West, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for Technology Innovation.
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Unless you have a cryptographic hash of the file signed by an authority that you trust, you have no reason to believe that it represents reality.
This has been the case since the beginning of digital photos.
Like a stopped clock...
It’s all fun and games until somebody loses an eye.
I’ve seen the Biden trans-bash. He hasn’t been that coherent and fluent in 40 years, if ever. That one wouldn’t fool anybody,
If you can create a world where truth cannot be known, then you can create any ‘truth’ you wish.
Just like the media and fact checkers. Believe nothing except God.
But you can’t justify a belief in God on the basis that you read about him in some book.
Sure I can. Watch me.
The timing is suspicious.
Don’t believe your lying eyes.
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