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Episode: As social media guardrails fade and AI deepfakes go mainstream, experts warn of impact on elections
Description: Generative artificial intelligence tools have made it far cheaper and easier to spread the kind of misinformation that can mislead voters and potentially influence elections. And social media companies that once invested heavily in correcting the record have shifted their priorities.
Fabricated images, videos, and audio clips known as deepfakes have started making their way into experimental presidential campaign ads. More sinister versions could easily spread without labels and fool people days before an election, said Oren Etzioni, an artificial intelligence expert and professor emeritus at the University of Washington.
βYou could see a political candidate like President Biden being ru...