Shannon Bond Shannon Bond is a correspondent at NPR, covering how misleading narratives and false claims circulate online and offline, and their impact on society and democracy.
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A recent video from Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis includes an image with three fake photos of former President Donald Trump and Dr. Anthony Fauci hugging. These three images appear to be AI-generated. DeSantis War Room/Screenshot and annotation by NPR hide caption
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YouTube announced on June 2 that it will no longer take down video that make false claims about the legitimacy of U.S. elections. Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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An aerial view of The Pentagon on May 10, 2023. Images that purported to show smoke rising from the headquarters of the U.S. armed forces appear to have been generated by artificial intelligence tools. Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Samuel Altman, CEO of OpenAI, greets committee chairman Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) while arriving for testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law May 16, 2023 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption
Lawmakers Want To Be Proactive On Artificial Intelligence Regulation
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Elon Musk speaking to journalists Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg at a conference in 2016. Musk's lawyers recently tried to argue in court that comments he made at that event could have been altered. Recode/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
People are trying to claim real videos are deepfakes. The courts are not amused
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump watches a video of President Joe Biden playing during a rally for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) at the Miami-Dade Country Fair and Exposition on November 6, 2022 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
Unlike Trump, Folks Who Don't Like Biden May Vote For Him Anyway
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An image from a Republican National Committee ad against President Biden features imagery generated by artificial intelligence. The spread of AI-generated images, video and audio presents a challenge for policymakers. Republican National Committee hide caption
AI-generated deepfakes are moving fast. Policymakers can't keep up
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Tucker Carlson speaking at an event in Hollywood, Fla., in 2022. Carlson was ousted from Fox News on Monday. One of his legacies as a host will be mainstreaming conspiracy theories into politics and media. Jason Koerner/Getty Images hide caption
How Tucker Carlson took fringe conspiracy theories to a mass audience
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he's running for president
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AI deepfakes could advance misinformation in the run up to the 2024 election
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This picture taken on January 23, 2023 in Toulouse, southwestern France, shows screens displaying the logos of OpenAI and Dall-E. LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Latino GOP Voters Embrace Culture War & New AI Makes Disinfo Easy
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Ethan Mollick, a business professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, used a photo of himself (left) in an artificial intelligence platform where he generated a deepfake video of himself (right). Ethan Mollick hide caption
It takes a few dollars and 8 minutes to create a deepfake. And that's only the start
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A protest against the Moldovan government and pro-EU President Maia Sandu in the capital Chisinau on Feb. 19, 2023. Elena Covalenco/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
From TV to Telegram to TikTok, Moldova is being flooded with Russian propaganda
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a patriotic concert in Moscow just ahead of the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 22, 2023. Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images hide caption