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Web of deceit: how generative AI is helping the spread of disinformation and propaganda

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This picture taken on February 7, 2022 shows Baik Kyeong-hoon (L), director of the “AI Yoon” team, making a video clip using “AI Yoon”, a digital avatar of South Korean presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol of the opposition People Power Party, at an election campaign office in Seoul.

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Governments and political actors around the world, in both democracies and autocracies, are using AI to generate texts, images, and video to manipulate public opinion in their favour and to automatically censor critical online content, says a recent report.

By Tate Ryan-Mosley Artificial intelligence has turbocharged state efforts to crack down on internet freedoms over the past year. Governments and political actors around the world, in both democracies and autocracies, are using AI to generate texts, images, and video to manipulate public opinion in their favor and to automatically censor critical online content. In a new report released by Freedom House, a human rights advocacy group,

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