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When AI makes democratic fraud personal

My ex-boyfriend deepfaked my face onto a video endorsing a candidate I hate and now it is spreading on Facebook faster than I can report it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Synthetic media technology has made political impersonation trivially easy, weaponizing intimate relationships for electoral manipulation.

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