{"id":841557,"date":"2024-08-06T09:39:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T04:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=841557"},"modified":"2024-08-06T09:39:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T04:09:28","slug":"lies-are-flooding-feeds-ai-fakery-raises-us-voter-manipulation-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/06\/lies-are-flooding-feeds-ai-fakery-raises-us-voter-manipulation-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lies are flooding feeds&#8217;: AI fakery raises US voter manipulation fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;deepfake&#8221; video parodying Kamala Harris, a manipulated expletive-laden clip of Joe Biden, and a doctored image of Donald Trump being arrested &#8212; a tide of AI-fueled political disinformation has prompted alarm over its potential to manipulate voters as the US presidential race heats up.<\/p>\n<p>In what is widely billed as America&#8217;s first AI election in November, researchers warn that tech-enabled fakery could be used to steer voters toward or away from candidates &#8212; or even to avoid the polls altogether &#8212; stoking tensions in an already hyperpolarized environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;deepfake&#8221; video parodying Kamala Harris, a manipulated expletive-laden clip of Joe Biden, and a doctored image of Donald Trump being arrested &#8212; a tide of AI-fueled political disinformation has prompted alarm over its potential to manipulate voters as the US presidential race heats up. In what is widely billed as America&#8217;s first AI election in November, researchers warn that tech-enabled fakery could be used to steer voters toward or away from candidates &#8212; or even to avoid the polls altogether &#8212; stoking tensions in an already hyperpolarized environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}