Never Mind The Deepfakes, Chatbots Have To Deal With Election Lies Being Free, While Truth Is Paywalled

It seems that every election cycle over the last decade has had concerns being raised about the state of “political deepfakes” and their ability to impact the election. So far, these have always been overblown, and there’s been little evidence of deepfakes having any real impact at all — perhaps other than creating the concept of “the liar’s dividend” enabling politicians caught doing actually bad things to falsely claim that it’s “fake news” and a “deepfake.” That could change, of course, and there are already concerns being raised about the impact of deepfakes midterms along with the fact that most of the major models are letting people create deepfake content. The...

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