Decoder is off this week for a short end-of-summer break. We’ll be back with both our interview and explainer episodes after the Labor Day holiday. In the meantime we thought we’d re-share an explainer that’s taken on a whole new relevance in the last couple weeks, about deepfakes and misinformation. In February, I talked with Verge policy editor Adi Robertson how the generative AI boom might start fueling a wave of election-related misinformation, especially deepfakes and manipulated media. It’s not been quite an apocalyptic AI free-for-all out there. But the election itself took some really unexpected turns in these last couple of months. Now we’re heading into the big, noisy home stretch, and use of AI is starting to get really weird — and much more troublesome. Links: The AI-generated hell of the 2024 election | The Verge AI deepfakes are cheap, easy, and coming for the 2024 election | Decoder Elon Musk posts deepfake of Kamala Harris that violates X policy | The Verge Donald Trump posts a fake AI-generated Taylor Swift endorsement | The Verge X’s Grok now points to government site after misinformation warnings | The Verge Political ads could require AI-generated content disclosures soon | The Verge The Copyright Office calls for a new federal law regulating deepfakes | The Verge How AI companies are reckoning with elections | The Verge The lame AI meme election | Axios Deepfakes' parody loophole | Axios Credits: Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. Our editor is Callie Wright. Our supervising producer is Liam James. The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Neil Apatow, Editor-in-Chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas and other problems. We're on a short summer break right now. We'll be back after Labor Day with new interview and explainer episodes, and pretty excited about what's on the schedule.
In the meantime, we thought we'd reshare an explainer that's taken on a whole new relevance these last couple weeks. It's about deepfakes and misinformation. In February, I talked with Verge Policy Editor Addie Robertson about how the generative AI boom might start fueling a wave of election-related misinformation, especially AI-generated deepfakes and manipulated media.
At the time, the biggest news in AI fakes was a robocall with an AI version of Joe Biden's voice. It's been about six months, and while there hasn't been quite an apocalyptic AI free-for-all out there, the election itself took some pretty unexpected turns.
Now we're headed into the big, noisy homestretch before Election Day, and the use of AI is starting to get really weird and much more troublesome. Elon Musk's X has become the de facto platform for AI-generated misinformation, and Trump's campaign has also started to boost its own AI use.
For the most part, these AI stunts have been mostly for cheap laughs, unless Taylor Swift decides to sue the Trump campaign. But as you'll hear Addy and I talk about in this episode, there are not a lot of easy avenues to regulate this kind of media without running headlong into the First Amendment, especially when dealing with political commentary around public figures.
There's a lot going on here and a lot of very difficult problems to solve that haven't really changed since we last talked about it. Okay, AI deepfakes during the 2024 election. Here we go. Addie Robertson, how are you doing? Hi, good. You've been tracking this conversation for a very long time. It does seem like there's more nuance in the disinformation conversation than before.
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