Political misinformation deepfakes (audio and video) created by an undergraduate student reduced viewers’ willingness to vote for the politicians targeted. However, these deepfakes were not consistently more effective than the same misinformation presented as simple text. 🗳️🤖📉
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Homemade political deepfakes can fool voters, but may not beat plain text misinformation
A new study finds that deepfakes made by an undergraduate student were able to sway political opinions and create false memories, but they weren't consistently more persuasive than written misinformation. The findings raise questions about the actual threat…
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Deepfake videos degrade political reputations even when viewers realize they are fake. Standard fact-checking efforts failed to undo the total reputational harm. The study used an altered video of Nancy Pelosi made to sound as though she sympathized with the rioters who breached the US Capitol.
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Deepfake videos degrade political reputations even when viewers realize they are fake
Artificial intelligence can create deceptive videos that rapidly damage a politician's public reputation. A new study reveals that even when voters realize the footage is manipulated, standard fact-checking efforts fail to undo the lingering emotional harm.
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Deepfake videos degrade political reputations even when viewers realize they are fake. Standard fact-checking efforts failed to undo the total reputational harm. The study used an altered video of Nancy Pelosi made to sound as though she sympathized with the…
* 🎥 New study in *Communication Research* reveals AI-generated deceptive videos, or "deepfakes," can harm politicians' reputations even when viewers suspect they're fake, failing to be fully undone by standard fact-checking.
* 🧠 Researchers like Michael Hameleers from the University of Amsterdam investigated how these videos influence voters in the US and Netherlands. They found even when viewers correctly identified videos as fake, opinions of targeted politicians still dropped, especially among their supporters.
* 📉 While fact-checks helped debunk the fake footage, they couldn't reverse the emotional reputational damage. Media literacy warnings had almost no impact. The negative feelings faded over time, suggesting a temporary effect, but future AI advancements could make fakes harder to spot.
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* 🧠 Researchers like Michael Hameleers from the University of Amsterdam investigated how these videos influence voters in the US and Netherlands. They found even when viewers correctly identified videos as fake, opinions of targeted politicians still dropped, especially among their supporters.
* 📉 While fact-checks helped debunk the fake footage, they couldn't reverse the emotional reputational damage. Media literacy warnings had almost no impact. The negative feelings faded over time, suggesting a temporary effect, but future AI advancements could make fakes harder to spot.
#Deepfakes #AI #Misinformation
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Researchers developed a 15–20-minute training programme that improves people’s ability to distinguish between real and AI-generated faces, with performance improving from below chance to above chance, while computer models trained on the same cues reached 94% accuracy
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