New York Politics Sees First Deepfake Audio Attack, Exposing Threats to Election Integrity
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Manhattan Democratic Party Leader Keith Wright's voice was cloned using AI to create a fake audio clip meant to cause political damage.
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The incident marks one of the first uses of deepfake audio to directly target a political opponent in New York.
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It exposes the growing threat of AI-generated disinformation in elections, with few regulations in place to address it.
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While some states have laws on political deepfakes, New York only requires disclosure for their use in campaigns - not anonymous releases.
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Experts warn as AI audio quality rapidly improves, plausible deniability makes countering disinformation harder, threatening free and fair elections.