Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track
poplargrove@lemmy.world 9 months agoDeepfakes are being used to personalize political messages in India, here’s a fun article on it which also points out an instance all the way back from 2020: aljazeera.com/…/deepfake-democracy-behind-the-ai-…
It also mentions using deepfakes to target constituencies speaking different languages, to defame opposing parties, and even creating deepfakes to cast doubt on legitimate videos:
Ahead of the state election in November, the caller requested that Jadoun alter a problematic but authentic video of their candidate – whose party he did not disclose – to make a realistic deepfake. The aim: to claim that the original was a deepfake, and the deepfake the original.
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
In Australia they handed out fliers designed to look like an official government department, and targeted Chinese speaking communities who might not notice the difference.
Dodgy politicians will use anything, the solution is to go after them for doing it rather than focusing on the method because they’ll just find another method if they don’t get stopped.