Political Candidates Are Attacking Each Other With Silly Deepfakes
Political deepfakes, long feared but never quite realized, could play a major, potentially disruptive role in the upcoming 2024 presidential election. Both former president Donald Trump and Florida governor Ron DeSantis have already used AI-generated image models to trash each other during the Republican primary.
In the Trump example, he used deepfaked audio mimicking George Soros, Adolf Hitler, and the Devil himself to mock DeSantis’ shaky campaign announcement on Twitter Spaces. DeSantis fired back with deepfake images purporting to show Trump embracing former National Institute of Health Director Anthony Fauci.
