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Political deepfakes are spreading like wildfire thanks to GenAI
A new study from the Center for Countering Digital Hate finds that political deepfakes are easier to create -- and share -- than ever.
“As elections take place around the world, we’re building on our platform safety work to prevent abuse, improve transparency on AI-generated content and design mitigations like declining requests that ask for image generation of real people, including candidates,” the spokesperson added. Hood — and the co-authors — also call on policymakers to use existing laws to prevent voter intimidation and disenfranchisement arising from deepfakes, as well as pursue legislation to make AI products safer by design and transparent — and vendors more accountable. Last month, image generator vendors including Microsoft, OpenAI and Stability AI signed a voluntary accord signaling their intention to adopt a common framework for responding to AI-generated deepfakes intended to mislead voters.
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