Posted 2/4/2024, 4:00:00 PM
Expert Warns of Mental Health Risks as Hyperrealistic Deepfakes Proliferate
- AI expert warns deepfakes will leave us with a warped sense of reality as they become cheaper and more accessible
- There's been a 900% increase in deepfake creation year-over-year; every person may eventually get deepfaked
- Deepfakes can have a serious mental health impact on both the target and viewers
- Regular people may struggle to disprove realistic deepfakes even with evidence they're fake
- Advancing AI could make ultra-realistic deepfakes even harder to disprove and not believe, even with proof