Curated Resource ( ? )
Deepfake democracy: Here's how modern elections could be decided by fake news | World Economic Forum
Curated:
10/10/2020 from
www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/deepfake-democracy-could-modern-elections-fall-prey-to-fiction/
my notes ( ? )
WEF examines the impact deepfakes could have on US2020. Not a lot of the analysis is new, except perhaps:
- how deepfakes could be used subtly: making small changes to "how a candidate delivers an otherwise authentic speech ... [to call] character, fitness and mental health into question"
- some examples from Gabon, Malaysia & Belgium(?)
Calls for an international "ethical agenda" for the use of AI in political advertising and online content, but doesn't provide any details beyond pointing to its own talking shop.
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The above notes were curated from the full post www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/deepfake-democracy-could-modern-elections-fall-prey-to-fiction/.Related reading
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