days of oppo plays and om- inous robocalls will soon seem tame by comparison. Imagine: A deepfake hostage crisis
in Russia, say, with realis- tic video of Americans in mortal jeopardy. A bogus police report of
NO, SHE DIDN’T An AI-generated clip that circulated on social media earlier this year showed former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton endorsing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for the presidency. There is no evidence Clinton ever made such an endorsement. In the clip, she
says: “You know, people might be surprised to hear me saying this, but
I actually like Ron DeSantis a lot. Yeah, I know. I’d say he’s just the kind of guy this country needs, and I really mean that. If Ron DeSantis got installed as president, I’d be fine with that.” The graphic shows the MSNBC logo and the chyron: “Hillary Clinton Endorses DeSantis.” An MSNBC spokesperson told Reuters this is not a clip they aired. Signs the video
Trump contracted the coro- navirus in October 2020, a month before Election Day. As Bill Clinton likes to
say, if you see a turtle on a fence post, you know it didn’t get there on its own. Some of these 11th-hour events were nature-made or spontaneous happen- stance. But many were engi-
neered from authentic data and discharged with craft and care, set forth by rival forces to create the most damage to the opposition. In 2024, adding artifi-
cial intelligence into the mix, the potential for mis- chief is exponentially more likely — and more grave. There are, to be sure,
some very positive ways in which the 2024 presi- dential campaigns will
is AI-generated are the tone of Clinton’s voice and the phrase “Hail, Hydra” she uses toward the end of the clip, an apparent reference to a far- right organization from Marvel’s Captain America.
Dominic Lees, an
associate professor of filmmaking at the University of Reading in the U.K., told Reuters via email that two tell-tale signs the video is a deepfake
deploy the latest technol- ogy to reach and turn out voters with efficiencies and economies of scale never before imaginable in our nation’s history. The danger is that the negatives end up dwarf- ing the positives. We are, after all, talk-
ing about the roughest and tumbliest competition in America, a highly con- tested presidential election featuring a Democratic Party that thought noth- ing of creating (and lying about) the Steele dossier and a Republican Party whose leading figure for the last eight years retweets toxic deepfake videos with- out shame or hesitation. Add in super PACs and
other shady outside groups whose flush bank accounts
are the lips not syncing to the audio and “the poor image precision of the teeth.” Clinton can
be seen wearing the same clothes and jewelry in an MSNBC interview in December 2021, where she talks about former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, suggesting the clip circulating online was created using footage from this interview.
and near utter lack of ac- countability make them prime troublemakers. Not to mention the Chi-
nese, the Russians, the North Koreans, and other foreign antagonists whose technological expertise al- lows them to lob digital monkey wrenches by the barrelful into the gears of our democratic process. Even the proverbial pre-
cocious American teenage kid in ratty sweatpants, parked at the old desktop in his parents’ basement, Cheez-Its spilling over the keys, might manage to pro- duce a piece of mesmeriz- ing content to disrupt the election, perhaps even de- termine the outcome. With the advent of high-
ly advanced artificial intel- ligence, or AI, the olden
an apparent long-ago DUI posted to Twitter that, in this case, resulted in mul- tiple casualties. A Dow Jones glitch that
erases the wealth of 50 mil- lion 401Ks. A hot mic capturing a candidate’s admission of corruption. A Reel circulating on In-
stagram showing a candi- date, his voice and face un- mistakable, making racist remarks. “OMG you guys,” reads the accompanying text, “my BF was catering a function for rich dudes and this is what he saw!!” The Reel goes viral. Photos of a candidate on
life support in the hospital shared on Facebook. The candidate releases a state- ment and holds a press conference assuring voters he is fine. But which is the real
deal? How can voters be sure what they are seeing is true? As Bruce Mehlman,
a Washington strategist and former assistant sec- retary of Commerce for Technology Policy, warns about the 2024 presiden- tial race: “Dirty tricks will get dirtier, micro-target- ing more micro, videos more viral.” In other words, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
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