Key Points
Realistic AI-generated images and voice recordings may be the latest threat to democracy, but theyre part of a long-standing family of deceptions..
A better tactic would be to encourage a few well-known critical thinking methodsrefocusing our attention, reconsidering our sources and questioning ourselves..
People may unconsciously be more trusting of deepfake images because theyre more perfect than real ones, he said..
Humans tend to like and trust faces that are less quirky, and more symmetrical, so AI-generated images can often look more attractive and trustworthy than the real thing. . Asking voters to do more research when confronted with social media images or claims is not enough..
One of the most common reasons that rumours get repeated on X, but not in the mainstream media, is lack of credible evidence. . AI has made it cheaper and easier than ever to use social media to promote a fake news site by manufacturing realistic fake people to comment on articles, said Filippo Menczer, a computer scientist and director of the Observatory on Social Media at Indiana University..
