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Oh yes that's right the Tories won't lose because of any of their behaviors over the last 15 years, no it's 100% because of this evil AI.

Nothing is ever their fault is it

This will be used to implement even more authoritarian internet and tech laws as always.

Also are the Tories going to pull a GOP-style fake election accusation when they're voted out?

This doesn't really seem like a new problem. It wasn't so long ago that most news was disseminated in text form which has been easily faked forever. The solution should be improving the ways of verifying the information we receive. I guess the main difference now is most people would see a video on social media and believe it. 20-25 years ago I was taught not to believe everything you read online and that hasn't changed.

I mean... Cassetteboy was a form of deepfaking. Yes, obvious; Yes, Satire; but it still got an image of Johnson or May in your head, saying (singing) something that they didn't say.

If anyone uses this as an excuse to question the validity of elections, they need to be ashamed of themselves.

Whilst I don't doubt we'll see this sort of thing, I don't think it's gonna have much to do with the Tories inevitable defeat in the coming election.

That said, it's definitely something we're going to have to figure out in the coming years.

ah, setting up the excuse already

At the last election, the tory party changed their twitter account display-name and profile-picture to pretend to be the "Fact Check UK" account. They have no integrity. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/19/tories-tweet-anti-labour-posts-under-factcheckuk-brand
Edit: to be clear, I do think the potential for deepfake misinfo is concerning. But the Tories can absolutely fuck off about it

Being it on.

The deep fakes can't be any worse than the melts that are currently fcuking it up.

and the media gobble it up. .

Nah even AI isn't that much of a c.unit as the Tory party is, so we know what is AI generated and what isn't.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Deepfake videos generated using artificial intelligence could provide the “perfect storm” for the UK’s adversaries to influence the upcoming general election, the home secretary has warned.

He warned that adversaries working on behalf of countries like Iran or Russia could flood social media platforms with highly realistic AI-generated deepfake videos in an attempt to sway voters.

“The era of deepfake and AI-generated content to mislead and disrupt is already in play,” Mr Cleverley told The Times, adding that “increasingly today the battle of ideas and policies takes place in the ever-changing and expanding digital sphere.”

Earlier this month tech giants including Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and 17 others agreed to work together to prevent deceptive AI content, but this pact did not commit to banning deepfake videos.

Mr Khan, who was the victim of an AI-generated recording of him supposedly making inflammatory remarks in the run-up to Armistice Day protests last year, said the regulation around the fakes is currently “not fit for purpose.”

Ahead of the EU elections, Facebook owner Meta said it is setting up a team to tackle disinformation and the abuse of AI as concerns about misuse of the technology to manipulate voters loom.

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If they're using it for bad, fair game to use it for good with some AI deepfakes too. I wonder if we'll see a paparazzi style video of Bibi eating a pork chop soon.