AI deepfakes are cheap, easy, and coming for the 2024 election
AI deepfakes are cheap, easy, and coming for the 2024 election
Generative AI might cause massive election misinformation problems. Here’s how.
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Make it illegal
Robocalls are already illegal and yet they never stop blowing up my phone.
At some point, you actually have to enforce this shit. And, between the Pentagon budget and the NSA and the FBI and the State Police and the Municipal Police and the DEA and the CIA and the DHS and the TSA and the FCC... fuck, we just don't have the money in the budget to stop a phone bank in Manila operating on $2/hr wages from bombarding everyone's cell phones with automated spam 24/7/365.
You can do this on cheap consumer grade hardware without requiring particularly advanced programming or video editing skills. Even if you make the punishment extremely harsh the damage will already be done by the time you can prosecute and convict someone for abusing this technology to spread misinformation. The cat is definitely out of the bag at this point.