Trolls in Slovakian election tap AI deepfakes to spread disinformation

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One such video features a two-minute-long conversation in which the leader of the progressive party, Mr Michal Simecka, appears to discuss buying votes from the Roma minority with a journalist. ....the audio was synthesised by an artificial intelligence (AI) tool trained on real samples of the speakers’ voices, and several copies are available on social media without a label marking them as misleading.

deepfake technology has become a lot easier for the average person to use without needing a very powerful computer....apps such as HeyGen that make it very easy to turn scripts into talking deepfake videos using short samples of someone’s voice.

Qn: Should limits be placed on the development of artificial intelligence? (ACJC Prelim 2023)