From WMUR 9
Amid rise in AI-generated deepfakes, experts warn technology moving faster than laws meant to control it
By Mike Moses
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Artificial intelligence is changing what we can trust, blurring the line between real and fake. After a high-profile deepfake made headlines in New Hampshire, experts warn that the technology is moving faster than the laws meant to control it.
The response is now underway, as communities and lawmakers try to keep up with a threat that is evolving in real time.
The deepfake robocall sounding just like President Joe Biden that hit phones of registered voters in the Granite State just hours before the 2024 presidential primary is still one of the most widely discussed deepfake incidents.
And it's not just politics. In Goffstown last year, a deepfake involving students shows the real-life impact of how damaging it can be. In response, new policies are being implemented, including a new state law...
“The ease with which you can make these things has just absolutely gotten obliterated. Anybody can now create fakes,” said Hany Farid, a digital forensics researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.
Farid is an internationally known, leading expert on deepfakes.
“This technology is being weaponized and we have got to start to get a handle on it as an electorate. Otherwise, our very democracy is at stake,” Farid said.
News 9 Investigates spent time with Farid as he returned to Dartmouth College, where he once taught and was focused on artificial intelligence long before it entered the mainstream...
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley
