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 https://defenseopinion.com/recent-election-incident-highlights-need-for-tools-that-counter-deepfakes/521/     By David Castillo and Siwei Lyu and E. Bruce Pitman In the run up to the recent New Hampshire presidential primary, voters in the state were bombarded with what law enforcement officials suspect was an artificial intelligence-generated robocall of President Biden with the goal of suppressing the vote. “What a bunch of malarkey,” the recorded message from “Biden” begins, according to  NBC News , telling recipients to stay home and “save your vote for the November election.” The robocall is a glimpse of a new era dawning in which AI is employed by bad actors as a weapon against essential institutions and functions of democracy, including elections. As the incident underscores, recent advances in artificial intelligence technologies are prompting a...

 https://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2024/01/lyu-deepfake-bias.html     By TOM DINKI Published January 18, 2024 Share This Print “A detection algorithm’s accuracy should be statistically independent from factors like race, but obviously many existing algorithms, including our own, inherit a bias. ” Siwei Lyu, SUNY Empire Professor and co-director UB Center for Information Integrity The image spoke for itself.  UB computer scientist and deepfake expert Siwei Lyu created a photo collage out of the hundreds of faces that his detection algorithms had incorrectly classified as fake — and the new composition clearly had a predominantly darker skin tone. “A detection algorithm’s accuracy should be statistically independent from factors like race,” Lyu says, “but obviously many existing algorithms, including our own, inherit a bias.” Lyu, co-director of the UB Center for Information Integrity, and his team have now developed what they believe are the ...