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What happened to the ‘deep fake’ election?

What happened to the ‘deep fake’ election?

It was all surprisingly quiet on the digital front

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Jamie Bartlett
Jul 04, 2024
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What happened to the ‘deep fake’ election?
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So that’s it – the campaigning is over! At last.

Many things were missing over the last six weeks. But one absence stood out: all the ‘deep fakes’ that were apparently going to flood the zone.

In this, the year of elections, everyone has been bracing for the digital deluge: fake audio, fake video, fake users, fake stories, fake voters. Nobel prize winner …

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