'Spreading lies': The government should regulate AI-powered political campaign ads: UC Berkeley professor

Fake AI pictures and videos will be nearly impossible to discern from real images as the technology behind deepfakes advances, University of California, Berkeley professor says. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) must consider whether it needs to set rules to prevent political campaigns from using artificial intelligence to create ads intended to deceive voters as the 2024 election cycle moves into full swing, an AI image analyst said. "The FEC will need to consider whether and how to regulate a campaign's use of manipulated media in the service of its own candidate," Hany Farid, a University of California, Berkeley professor, wrote in a recent opinion piece for The Hill. "Manipulating the photographic record is only the first step in spreading lies." Presidential campaigns have already started using artificial intelligence to deceptively manipulate their campaign ads.