David Pocock on the threat of election deepfakes

09/10/24 • 19 min

As Australia prepares to head into another federal election, independent ACT senator David Pocock wanted to make a statement when he commissioned deepfake AI generated videos of the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and the opposition leader, Peter Dutton. He wants to stop political parties and big donors from using generative technologies to their advantage. Pocock speaks to Reged Ahmad about why he thinks time is running out to address the threat of election AI deepfakes. You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport

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