“This Will Be Dangerous in Elections”: Political Media’s Next Big Challenge Is Navigating AI Deepfakes

On a recent episode of Pod Save America, cohost and former Obama administration staffer Tommy Vietor said he’d run into “a very important friend over the weekend,” before teeing up an exclusive audio message from President Joe Biden. The clip was filled with Bidenisms (“malarkey”; “folks”; “build an economy from the bottom up and the middle out”) and some jokes (“Did Joe Biden find it funny when Favreau said my South Carolina event looked like a party at a discount funeral home? No, Joe did not.”) The whole thing seemed somewhat plausible: Biden himself went on the show during his… Read Full Article