„Visuelle Desinformation gefährdet die Demokratie“ – Technologiefolgen-Forscherinnen des KIT untersuchen die Risiken von Deepfakes. - Campus-Report am 14.12.2021

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg explains on Instagram how he wants to take over the world, Hollywood stars act as porn actresses: visual fakes have left the photoshop era far behind. The advances in artificial intelligence make it increasingly difficult to distinguish between reality and deception. So-called deepfakes not only allow the falsification of images or videos, the voice can also be cloned perfectly. Deepfakes are circulating millions of times on social networks and promote bullying and conspiracy theories. On behalf of the European Parliament, researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology dealt with the political and social risks of deepfake technologies and made recommendations for state regulation.