Deepfake! A Liar’s Dividend for Audiovisual Material

What is it about?

Deep learning algorithms enable the creation of audiovisual materials that resemble actual audiovisual recordings, but the depicted incidents never actually happened (deepfakes). This development could benefit political actors who may falsely claim that unfavorable, genuine audiovisual content was created by artificial intelligence (the liar’s dividend). The results of our experiment show that discrediting genuine audiovisual evidence as fake news may indeed be a successful strategy for political actors, a strategy that healthy democracies need to be aware of.

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