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When President Biden announced his bid for a second term this week, here is how the Republican National Committee responded. They used artificial intelligence to create a 30-second ad imagining what President Biden's second term might look like, complete with fake news reports.
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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: This morning, an emboldened China invades Taiwan.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: Financial markets are in freefall as 500...
INSKEEP: A little disclaimer said the video was, quote, "built with AI imagery." NPR's Shannon Bond reports that as technology gets better at faking reality, some people ask how to regulate it.
SHANNON BOND, BYLINE: That GOP ad was just the latest instance of AI blurring the line between real and make-believe. In the past few weeks, fake images of former President Donald Trump scuffling with police went viral, so did an imagined picture of Pope Francis wearing a stylish puffy coat and a fake song using cloned voices of pop stars Drake and The Weeknd. As AI tools unleash the ability for anyone to create fake images, synthetic audio and video and text that sounds convincingly human, even experts admit they're stumped.
IRENE SOLAIMAN: I look at these generations multiple times a day, and I have a very hard time telling them apart. It's going to be a tough road ahead.
BOND: Irene Solaiman is a safety and policy expert at the AI company Hugging Face. She focuses on making AI work better for everyone, which includes...
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