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Special Report: How AI and Election Misinformation go Hand in Hand
“(AI) vastly increases the capacity to create any type of new media … both in speed and volume."
Patent applications reveal ways in which tech companies may be attempting to stymie this issue using the very technology that can intensify it, whether it be deepfake detection, fact-checking tools or spam scrapers. It isn’t always malicious – sometimes it’s silly and nonsensical, like the viral AI-generated videos of President Joe Biden and Barack Obama duetting “Boy’s a Liar” by Ice Spice. Though it’s often difficult to separate the real from the fake based on the content alone, the best way to operate is to develop a healthy dose of skepticism, even for your own beliefs, so as not to simply confirm your own biases, said Trielli.
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