AI is a clear danger to millennia-long human fight to find the truth. Large language model “hallucinations”, vocal deep traps, and now the use of video that Deepfakes have had, have all had a blasting effect on facts, as a result of which bad actors have even wiped recorded events such as mere “fake news”.
The danger is perhaps the most acute in the political empire, where DeepFake audio and video can make every politician say or seem to do. In such a climate, our highest officials chosen have a special duty to model the search for truth and responsible AI use.
But what is the pleasure in that, if you can simply blow up negotiations on a budget impasse by placing a deepfake video of your political opponents who call themselves “a few pieces of shit” while Mariachi Music plays in the background? Oh – and had I called the fake mortache? Or the CGI Sombrero?
On Monday evening, the President of the United States, a man with access to the largest intelligence collection operation in the world, on his truth social account posted an AI-generated video of 35 seconds filled with racial insults, racial overtones and bizarre conspiracy theories. The video was aimed at two democratic leaders who had recently met Trump about a possible agreement to finance the government; I thought that this kind of video was a pretty bad way to agree with you, but apparently AI-generated insults are the real 'art of the deal'.
In the clip, a deepfake version of senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) expresses a surrealistic monologue while his fellow repack. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to … in a sombrero.
