Election laws not ready for deepfakes, experts warn: ‘It’s the Wild West right now’

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March 14, 2024

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Saska, Jim

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The question, said Persily, is how, and by how much, AI might amplify the current cacophony of disinformation in the United States. The reason to fear synthetic media is either because “we think it’s going to be uniquely persuasive,” or because “it has an ability to scale and reach a certain audience that non-synthetic media does not.”