From Politico
Trump’s crafty new use of AI
By Mohar Chatterjee
When Barack Obama mocked Donald Trump’s “weird obsession with crowd sizes” (complete with a suggestive hand gesture) at the Democratic National Convention this week, the audience went wild, and the internet made the moment go viral.
But on Trump’s end, something else was also going on when he made his (false) assertions that Kamala Harris used artificial intelligence to inflate the crowd sizes in images of her rallies...
“When he’s denying these images of Harris’ crowds, you could think, ‘Wow, it’s just pettiness,” said Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley who focuses on media forensics. “But I think it’s worse than that, because I think he’s setting the stage for denying the election...” (Farid is not the only one who thinks this.)
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
