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How Deepfakes Fuel Conspiracy Theories
IEEE Spectrum spectrum.ieee.org
In March 2022, a video appeared purporting to depict Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy advising the country’s soldiers to surrender to the invading Russian military. If the video’s creators wished to erode Ukrainian morale, they met limited success. But videos like this may be responsible for a more insidious type of erosion: undermining trust in media at large.
A study of tweets concerning AI-generated deepfake videos related to the Russo-Ukrainian War suggests that, even if the deepfakes themselves aren’t convincing, their …
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