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HEADLINE: Deepfakes Are Making It Hard to Know What’s Real in Political Ads
TEASER: Limited legal framework to counter generative AI deepfakes
BYLINE: Deana Mitchell
PUBLISHED: 08/02/2023 9AM
DATELINE: Austin, Texas
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PRODUCER: Deana Mitchell
SCRIPT EDITORS: Stearns, Sharon Shahid
VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, AP, Marca/OpenAI, powervango/TikTok, ZOOM, YouTube, VERIFY
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TRT: 1:54
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[[((INTRO:)) The commission that enforces U.S. election rules will not be regulating AI-generated deepfakes in political advertising ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Deana Mitchell has our story.
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Pope Francis did not really wear this designer Balenciaga coat,
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and former President Donald Trump was not photographed running from the police. These fake images were created with software using generative artificial intelligence.
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Deepfakes are already part of the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign, with this video from Trump opponents showing him hugging former White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, with whom he was often at odds during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The misinformation-debunking show “VERIFY” determined that three of the images are fake.
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"If you look more closely at the pictures, you can see more evidence they are AI-generated. Instead of saying White House, it says Mephap.
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Deepfakes in political advertising alarm the nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen, where Lisa Gilbert is executive vice president.
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((Lisa Gilbert, Public Citizen Executive Vice President))
“One of the things that artificial intelligence is able to do, particularly generative AI, is create easily deepfakes. So, you know, video or audio that looks incredibly real, impossible to discern with the naked eye from a real video.”
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Public Citizen asked the U.S. Federal Election Commission to make rules for campaign ads that use computer-generated images, but the commission said that was not within its jurisdiction. There is little legal infrastructure for policing deepfakes, says Cornell Law School professor of digital and information law James Grimmelmann.
((James Grimmelmann, Cornell Law School)) ((Courtesy: Zoom))
And the Supreme Court has actually also made it pretty clear that it's quite difficult for them to regulate anything except the most egregiously false and harmful speech.”
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He expects the use of deepfakes in political campaigns will grow.
((James Grimmelmann, Cornell Law School)) ((Courtesy: Zoom))
“And it’ll be very hard to trace the specifics of who created them."
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There is currently legislation in Congress that would require political advertisements to state if generative AI was used.
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