People can generally spot when videos of famous politicians giving speeches are actually AI-generated deepfakes. But we have more trouble discerning counterfeits from reality when listening to audio or reading supposed text transcripts. "Audio deepfakes are, in my opinion, a little more dangerous in the current time because visual deepfakes are still harder to create," says Aruna Sankaranarayanan at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Midjourney, a popular AI-powered image generator, is creating images of Donald Trump and Joe Biden despite saying that it would block users from doing so earlier this year ahead of the upcoming US presidential election. When Engadget prompted the service to create an image of "the president of the United States," Midjourney generated four images in various styles of former president Donald Trump. When asked to create an image of "the next president of the United States," the tool generated four images of Trump as well. When Engadget prompted Midjourney to create an image of "the current president of the United States," the service generated three images of Trump and one image of former president Barack Obama. The only time Midjourney refused to create an image of Trump or Biden was when it was asked to do so explicitly.

It's that time again for Americans to take to the polls. If you've lived long enough, you recognize the patterns… Each opposing political side, shades the other, scandals and leaks may pop, shortcomings are magnified, critics make the news, promises are doled out'rather-convincingly' and there's an overwhelming sense of'nationality and togetherness' touted by both sides… And often, we simply choose the'lesser of the two evils', because candidly the one is not significantly better than the other. So today, I'm going to analyze the presidential debates of President Trump and Vice-President Biden… The entire analysis is done by the Author, using scientific methods that do not assume faultlessness. This is a personal project devoid of any political affiliations, sentiments or undertones. The inferences expressed from this scientific process are entirely the Author's, based on the data.