The New American
The history of presidential campaigns is replete with dirty tricks, from 1856 claims that James Buchanan’s palsy-induced head tilt was the result of his trying to hang himself to the 2004 Killian documents fraud and beyond. But the advent of artificial intelligence and “deepfake” video and audio can take dirty tricks to a whole new level — and even, perhaps, sway an election.
A taste of this was delivered just last week, as Forbes reports:
Former President Donald Trump accused “Democrats” of using artificial intelligence to link him to [sex offender] Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday [January 9]….
Trump made the comments in a post on Truth Social Tuesday that featured a Daily Mail article about actor and Democratic activist Mark Ruffalo apologizing for posting a fake photo claiming to show Trump en route to Epstein’s infamous private island.
Ruffalo on Friday posted two photos to X of Trump on a plane surrounded by groups of young girls, claiming they were “all headed to Esptein’s ‘Fantasy Island,’” but later apologized after the post was flagged with additional context from readers who said it was AI generated.
Predicting artificial intelligence “will be a big and very dangerous problem in the future,” Trump suggested Tuesday “strong laws ought to be developed against A.I.”
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