Many pieces of AI-generated content were used to express support for or fandom of certain candidates. For instance, an AI-generated video of Donald Trump and Elon Musk dancing to the BeeGees song “Stayin’ Alive” was shared millions of times on social mediaincluding by Senator Mike Lee, a Utah Republican. “It’s all about social signaling. It’s […]
We explore four crucial approaches to identifying fake videos, from visual cues to professional … [+] forensic investigation, providing practical strategies for navigating our emerging post-truth era. Adobe Stock With AI making it increasingly easy for anyone to create truth-bending content, it’s widely said that we are now entering a “post-truth” era. This means it’s […]
X, the social media app owned by Elon Musk, has sued California in an attempt to block a new law requiring large online platforms to remove or label deceptive election content. The lawsuit, filed in federal court this week, targets a law that aims to combat harmful videos, images and audio that have been altered […]
The claims, however, didn’t go viral until last week and the release of the deepfake video. Darren Linvill, codirector at Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub, tells WIRED that he immediately recognized this tactic as part of Russia’s well-established disinformation playbook. “There is little doubt this is Storm-1516,” says Linvill, whose team uncovered the network last […]
