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What about deepfakes?

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Drawn from Lutz Finger's Forbes column, LinkedIn writing, and Cornell teaching. Sources are cited inline so you can read the originals.

How society will adapt to synthetic media.

As AI lowers the barriers to content creation, abuse is also becoming more feasible. Deepfakes — AI-generated images, videos and audio designed to mimic real people — pose serious risks. Already in 2022, I demonstrated how easily they can be created. This increases the risk of misinformation, identity theft and political manipulation.

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Misuse of deepfakes without clear identification should be outlawed — regulators around the globe have started to take them seriously. Already in 2019 there were about a dozen federal- and state-level bills to regulate deepfakes, ranging from criminalizing the use of a woman’s likeness in a pornographic film without her

Deepfakes - The Danger Of Artificial Intelligence That We Will Learn To Manage Better · Forbes


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