Experts say "deep fakes" created by AI pose a grave threat to democracy, but they don't. No nation is more prepared to expose deep fakes than the U.S. Why? Because, for decades, the Defense Department has been funding the technology to create and detect them.

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 @4dce86ab Seems to me you could do a lot of damage with politically-movitated deep fakes and there's a helluva lot of financial gain to do so. If you have a gullible public and enormously powerful government, that is.