
Deepfake video of Kari Lake highlights potential problem in election season
The release of a deepfake video showing Arizona U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake is raising concerns over false images that can be easily manufactured through artificial intelligence, or AI, technology. A political consultant says the deepfake trend could seriously erode public trust. AI technology advances make it more difficult to discern if video images are real or have been manipulated, warns AI expert Subbarao Kambhampati, a professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, part of the Fulton Schools. Kambhampati says the days of relying only on one’s eyes and ears to discern real from fake are gone, but there are clues that can indicate whether images have been manipulated.