The Collision of AI and Politics in America's 2024 Election.

The 2024 US presidential election is expected to be heavily influenced by deepfakes, which are realistic yet fabricated videos created by AI algorithms trained on copious online footage. The use of generative AI tools such as Midjourney has made it cheap and easy to create convincing deepfakes, blurring fact and fiction in the polarized world of US politics. While major social media platforms have made efforts to prohibit and remove deepfakes, their effectiveness at policing such content varies. The potential for generative AI to produce campaign emails, posts, and adverts is irresistible for some activists who feel the low-cost tech could level the playing field in elections.