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Slew of deepfake video adverts of Sunak on Facebook raises alarm over AI risk to election (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Here's my conspiracy theory:

Sunak ordered this.

Now any time a clip of him saying something shitty comes out they can claim it's another fake. Before anyone has the opportunity to refute that, we have been moved on to the next thing. These ads got put out and made intentionally obvious so they would be found out easily. No real scammer is making 140 different adverts on just Facebook. They make one and get it on as many sites and ad networks as possible before anyone catches on and shuts it down. The more places it exists, the longer it takes to be removed from the internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yeh. I don’t see the point in that at all, I can’t see how it would practically help his political campaign

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I’ll have to warn my grandma - she’s the only one that uses facebook

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

More than 100 deepfake video advertisements impersonating Rishi Sunak were paid to be promoted on Facebook in the last month alone, according to research that has raised alarm about the risk AI poses before the general election.

The adverts may have reached as many as 400,000 people – despite appearing to break several of Facebook’s policies – and mark the first time that the prime minister’s image has been doctored in a systematic way en masse.

They include one with faked footage of a BBC newsreader, Sarah Campbell, appearing to read out breaking news that falsely claims a scandal has erupted around Sunak secretly earning “colossal sums from a project that was initially intended for ordinary citizens”.

The research was carried out by Fenimore Harper, a communications company set up by Marcus Beard, a former Downing Street official who headed No 10’s response to countering conspiracy theories during the Covid crisis.

“Our Online Safety Act goes further by putting new requirements on social platforms to swiftly remove illegal misinformation and disinformation – including where it is AI-generated – as soon as they become aware of it.”

Regulators have been concerned that time is running out to enact wholesale changes to ensure Britain’s electoral system keeps pace with advances in artificial intelligence before the next general election, which is tipped to take place in November.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

This is going to carry on until we get a Phil Woolas situation and some election results get overturned.