7 Ways Data and AI Can Be Used to Trick and Deceive the Public

Deepfake videos and altered videos are getting so advanced that they are increasingly harder to spot. Many believe AI deepfake tools, that allow people to superimpose the face of a politician or actor onto a video and also convincingly replicate their voice, could be a real threat to democracy. In May 2019, Donald Trump posted a video that had gone viral of Nancy Pelosi appearing to drunkenly slur her way through a speech. The video was quickly debunked -- someone had altered the original footage to slow down Pelosi's speech while raising the pitch to make it sound like natural slow speech. The video was viewed millions of times and Trump, notably, didn't remove the video from his social media after it was debunked.