From Los Angeles Times
Trump posted a fake Taylor Swift image. AI and deepfakes are only going to get worse this election cycle
By Queenie Wong and Wendy Lee
The patriotic image shows megastar Taylor Swift dressed up like Uncle Sam, falsely suggesting she endorses Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
“Taylor Wants You To Vote For Donald Trump,” the image, which appears to be generated by artificial intelligence, says...
“We have all the problems of the past, all the myths and disagreements and general stupidity, that we’ve been dealing with for 10 years,” said Hany Farid, a UC Berkeley professor who focuses on misinformation and digital forensics. “Now we have it being supercharged with generative AI and we are really, really partisan...”
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley. He specializes in digital forensics.
