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The UK politician accused of being AI is actually a real person

“I am not AI,” Mark Matlock, a Reform UK candidate, said.

Mark Matlock, a political candidate for the right-wing Reform UK party, clarified in The Independent that he is a real person, not an AI bot, as some suspected. This seems like a good lesson for all elected officials: don’t edit your pictures in a way that looks like a Midjourney result for the prompt “youthful, nonthreatening-looking politician.” Convincingly real deepfakes of politicians are easier than ever to make, with President Joe Biden’s voice being cloned to discourage people from voting, in one notable incident.

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