But don’t doubt the alliterative precision of Sen. Richard Blumenthal when he warns about “a deluge of deception, disinformation and deepfakes … about to descend on the American public.”One thing we don’t need after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection is another danger to democracy.
on bogus pictures of Trump surrounded by African Americans, apparently circulated to give a false impression about his level of Black support. Last year,What’s also disturbing is how little effort it takes to fool people with today’s technology, which makes really good fakes simple. With free online programs, Blumenthal said, “voice cloning, deepfake images and videos are disturbingly easy for anyone to create.
“When a local newspaper is closed or understaffed, there may be no one doing fact-checking, no one to issue those Pinocchio images and no one to correct the record,” he said last week. “That's a recipe for toxic and destructive politics.”warned that “trust in real media may be undermined by false claims that real media is a deepfake.” In other words, AI makes it easier for fake news to trump real news.