Arizona residents were left baffled after Kari Lake appeared to film videos promoting a new Arizona watchdog media site and praising journalists.
Lake, who is running for the U.S. Senate as a Republican and is a former gubernatorial candidate, is a strong supporter of former President Donald Trump. She has denied losing the 2020 gubernatorial race and has long criticized the media.
But last week he appeared in three videos on the new Arizona Agenda site under the tagline “Kari Lake does us a big favor.”
Lake promotes the site and the work of the site’s journalists founded in 2021 by ex New York Times journalist Hank Stephenson.
The videos, however, are not what they seem, as they are ultra-realistic deepfakes. The site created them not only to promote itself, but also to highlight the danger that AI-generated videos pose for the November elections.
See if you can tell the difference between AI-Lake and the real candidate:
The top video is AI-generated Kari Lake, while the bottom is a real video of Lake. criticize Arizona officials for the 2022 elections in which they were Democrat Katie Hobbs trumps her in the race to become the next governor.
In the real video, Lake’s camera settings make her look photoshopped and her surroundings appear blurry, which is mimicked in the fake videos.
Stephenson initially presents the deep-fake as a real video, stating that “to our great surprise,” despite it being “a frequent subject of our ridicule,” Lake “offered to film a testimonial about how much he likes the deep-fake.” Arizona Agenda.’
The article soon reveals that not everything is as it seems.
‘Did you realize that this video is fake?’ Lake AI asks. ‘Well, in the next six months this technology will improve a lot. When the November elections arrive, you will hardly be able to distinguish between reality and artificial intelligence.
Lake’s slightly out-of-sync lip movements are the telltale sign, but in a post-pandemic era where Zoom interviews often create this effect anyway, it’s not a definitive red flag.
Kari Lake, who has long attacked the media, now appears in new videos endorsing an Arizona news site. But it’s not what it seems
The videos were a fake AI creation by Arizona Agenda, a new political monitoring site, to show the dangers of AI ahead of the November election. In the photo: the real Kari Lake on the scene of various events.
Lake’s slightly out-of-sync lip movements are the telltale sign of fake AI, but the site used a real interview to create its ultra-realistic model.
In fact, one video even notes that the mouth movement seems out of place and not entirely in sync.
“Around the small confines of my face you can almost see the failures of the matrix,” says AI-Lake.
The article points out that the audio is quite similar to his voice and it is difficult to tell the difference. However, the video of her face is not as advanced, making it easy for the AI to detect with a close look.
‘So what do you think?’ Stephenson’s article poses to readers. ‘At what point did you get it? Did you realize before you clicked because the setup was so far-fetched?
‘At least you saw it before she told you?’ Or, like most people we’ve shown this to, did it take a second for your brain to catch up even after our Deep Fake Kari Lake told you it was fake?
The site also notes that they made the video using ‘zero dollars’ and asked a software engineer to spend a few hours making the videos.
Deepfakes are media generated by artificial intelligence that imitate human voices, images and videos that can be mistaken for real ones.
Stephenson goes on to warn that as technology advances at breakneck speed, “this is just the beginning.”
“The 2024 election will be the first in history in which any idiot with a computer will be able to create convincing videos depicting fake events of global importance and publish them to the world in a matter of minutes,” the article states.
This fake AI-generated image spread on social media claiming that former President Donald Trump stopped his motorcade to take a photo with this group of men, the image is not real.
The creator behind this fake image claimed that he is not a ‘photojournalist’ but a ‘storyteller’
Just two weeks ago, former President Donald Trump accused congressional Democrats of using AI in a collection of videos of gaffes and verbal slips.
Stephenson said he Washington Post The article serves as a warning about the “scary” potential for increasingly realistic fake videos to proliferate, leaving voters baffled about what to believe.
“When we started doing this, I thought it was going to be so bad that it wouldn’t fool anyone, but I was impressed,” Stephenson told the newspaper.
And we are not sophisticated. If we can do this, then anyone with a real budget can do a good enough job to fool you, fool me, and that’s scary.”
Stephenson said Arizona’s Agenda is “here to help” break down compelling fakes that are “keeping election officials, cybersecurity experts and national security officials at night.”
AI is already frequently used to muddy political waters. Just two weeks ago, the former President Donald Trump accused congressional Usage Democrats AI in a collection of videos of gaffes and verbal slips.
Juice at a House hearing with special counsel Robert Hur, the video showed clips of Trump confusing the names of the heads of Hungary and Turkey, slurring his words and mixing up Nancy Pelosi and Nikki Haley.
Trump’s claim that Democratic staff used AI technology or that the White House was involved in the video in some way.
Meanwhile, MAGA supporters actually used AI to create images of Trump being embraced by black people, a demographic that Republicans continue to struggle to court.
A shocking report from the BBC’s Panorama showed that at least one prominent Trump supporter, Florida-based radio host Mark Kaye, admitted to creating the fake image.
An attack ad released by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ since-abandoned presidential campaign also used AI-generated footage of former President Donald Trump hugging Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Top left, bottom center and right images of a Ron DeSantis ad appear to be AI-generated deepfakes
Taylor Swift was the target of sexually explicit deepfake images that went viral on X last month
He Deepfake images showed Trump hugging and kissing Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who has become synonymous with the US response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Further of 400 AI experts, celebrities, politicians and activists have sounded the alarm about deeply false technology in an open letter to legislators.
They argued that the increasing number of AI-generated videos are a threat to society due to the involvement of sexual images, child pornography, fraud and political misinformation.
The letter states that deepfake technology is misleading the public, making it more difficult to discern what is real on the Internet, and therefore it is more important than ever to implement formalized laws “to protect our ability to recognize human beings.” real.”
The calls for stricter regulations come after sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift went viral on social media last month.