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Could AI and Deepfakes Sway the US Election?


This week on "\Politics Lab, we’re talking about AI’s potential impact on the election—and why it’s so hard to regulate nationwide.

I mean, this week did you guys see the image of Kamala Harris wearing a communist hat and dressed in all red, and he was like, “This is the future you'll have if you don't vote for Trump.” This is just happening with impunity. Will Knight: Yeah, I mean, it's fascinating to watch that because I think a while back the sort of narrative was, or the idea was, that deepfakes would completely fool people and show somebody doing something incriminating, but it's not really what's happening. Trump claiming that something is an AI image, like Kamala Harris' crowd sizes at an event, or like you said, possibly something extra incriminating that pops up, and the tech isn't even involved.

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