Artificial intelligence tools make it easy and fast to create convincing fake videos.
AI has already been used to disrupt elections around the world – and there are fears among senior politicians and the security services that the UK will be next.
If social media is flooded with synthetic images and text – even if it is clearly labelled as such – some experts fear voters could reach the point where where they no longer know what is real or not.
The media, the tech giants, the security services – and the political parties – will all have to grapple with this challenge at the next general election.
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