Mateusz Łabuz authored the OpEd titled “Deep fakes pose a risk to electoral processes, but apparently not in a direct way. For now?”. The article was published by Disruptor Tech Media.

Generative artificial intelligence is changing the world of politics and the information ecosystem. It accelerates the content creation and its exchange, reduces costs, but at the same time enhances the multiplication of disinformation. Synthetic media in visual or audio form, known as deep fakes, are commonly associated with electoral manipulation, but so far, the threats result from the imagined potential of the technology, not the direct disruption of electoral processes. The fundamental problem with AI-powered disinformation is quantifying its ultimate influence and understanding that synthetic media do not have to manipulate recipients directly to still exert a subtle influence by shaping cognitive associations, or decision making processes.

You can read the OpEd here.

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