Artificial Intelligence: "Deepfakes are coming whether we want them or not"

Robert Habeck is sitting in the talk show chair, his hair is a little disheveled as usual, but something amazing is coming out of his mouth. “I don’t give a shit about your potatoes,” he says, obviously directed at farmers who are demanding more subsidies. “We’ll just import the things via Amazon Prime.” This video is objectively very funny. But of course it’s not real.

This has to be, you think as you scroll through Instagram , one of those deepfakes that everyone from the Pope to the UN is warning about. Videos created using artificial intelligence in which politicians appear to say things they never said. This could be used to manipulate opinions, change moods, and bury the truth. Such fears have been around for a long time, but they are becoming increasingly concrete. Now, when important elections are coming up in the USA and Germany, when AI companies are releasing ever more impressive tools at ever shorter intervals, when the world hyperventilated for a week over a manipulated photo of Princess Kate.

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