The Growing Threat of Deep Fakes

The speaker discusses the increasing difficulty of distinguishing between real and fake content due to advances in generative AI and deep fakes. These technologies have the potential to harm individuals, especially women and girls, by creating falsified sexual images and misleading audio-visual content. The presence of audio deep fakes in electoral contexts and synthetic avatars impersonating news anchors further exacerbate the problem. The speaker emphasizes the importance of developing detection tools and skills to fortify the credibility of critical voices and images, and to provide access to these tools for journalists, community leaders, and election officials as the first line of defense against deep fakes.