Amidst warnings concerning the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI), fake photos appearing to have been created by AI have appeared in political campaigns ahead of the US presidential election.
In accordance with foreign media including Reuters on the eighth (local time), the campaign video distributed on the election camp of Florida Governor Ron Disantis, certainly one of the US Republican presidential candidates, included photos that experts identified as fake created by AI.
The video attacks former President Donald Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, and includes photos of him appearing near Anthony Fauci, chief quarantine officer in the course of the corona crisis.
In reality, on the time of the corona crisis, President Trump took a lukewarm attitude, opposed every case to the hard-line response plan of the top of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases Fauci, and delayed approval, forming a confrontational angle. Nevertheless, in the image within the video, former President Trump was portrayed as an intimate figure hugging and even kissing Pouch.
On this video, the Disantis camp sarcastically said that former President Trump was the one who even coined the buzzword “You’re fired” on a reality program, but didn’t fire Director Fauci. Then again, Governor DeSantis is claiming that Florida helped revitalize the local economy by first lifting corona-related restrictions, accusing then-President Trump of getting fired Fauci.
Matthew Stam, a pc science professor at Drexel University, told Reuters that three out of six photos within the video are likely AI-generated fakes. Professor Hani Farid of the University of California, Berkeley identified, “It’s a cunning trick to extend credibility by mixing real photos with fakes.”
Regarding AI, there have been recent claims that it needs to be regulated because it will probably be abused as a method of spreading false information. Gary Marcus, a professor at Recent York University, appeared as a witness on the U.S. Senate hearing on the sixteenth of last month and warned that if AI will not be regulated, “a situation can arise where nobody believes what anyone says” on account of the overflow of false information.
Reporter Jeong Byeong-il jbi@aitimes.com