This Reuters Institute story offers preliminary insights on how to evaluate and understand the outcomes provided by publicly accessible AI detectors that are available for free or at low cost.
Elections all over the world are endangered by a vast array of sophisticated digital threats. This year, when more voters head to the polls than ever before, AI-driven deepfakes threaten electoral processes everywhere, with potentially disastrous consequences for at-risk democracies. AI-generated audio simulations — in which a real voice is cloned by a machine learning […]
Experts agree that AI-driven audio deepfakes could pose a significant threat to democracy and fair elections in 2024.
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With more sophisticated AI technologies emerging, researchers warn that “deepfake geography” could become a growing problem. As a result, a team of researchers that set out to identify new ways of detecting fake satellite photos warn of the dangers of falsified geospatial data and call for a system of geographic fact-checking.
