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Meet the UC Berkeley professor tracking election deepfakes
Deepfakes are being weaponized in politics. This professor is on a mission to catalog — and stop — AI-generated misinformation.
As regulators grapple to control the technology, incredibly realistic deepfakes are being used to smear candidates, sway public opinion and manipulate voter turnout. Over recent months, many other widespread deepfakes have depicted Trump being tackled by a half-dozen police officers; Ukrainian Vladimir Zelenskiy calling for his soldiers to lay down their weapons and return to their families; and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris seemingly rambling and inebriated at an event at Howard University. The harmful technology has also been used to tamper with elections in Turkey and Bangladesh — and countless others to come — and some candidates including Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez have used deepfakes to engage with voters.
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