Survey Says Australian Voters Want Ban on Deepfake Election Content

‘Adopting protective technologies like content credentials will be crucial to help restore trust in the digital content we are consuming,’ Ms. Mulveny said.
Survey Says Australian Voters Want Ban on Deepfake Election Content
manipulation of elections ads by AI tools is concerning the Australian Electoral Commissioner.
Jim Birchall
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An overwhelming majority of Australian voters are concerned over how AI technology could be used to spread misinformation via fake election ads created with synthetic footage.

Findings released by Adobe on June 7 suggest four out of five people want the use of AI banned after admitting they were struggling to determine misinformation from legitimate information.

Jim Birchall
Jim Birchall
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Jim Birchall has written and edited for several regional New Zealand publications. He was most recently the editor of the Hauraki Coromandel Post.