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With the improvements in AI there is a fear of deep fakes of politicians being used to interfere with elections. Politicians could be ‘copied’ and then fake messages will be used to create mischief.

But wait, isn’t that already happening? We have fake messages, actually just lies, being spread by many candidates before elections and then forgotten after the elections. Already each team accuses the other teams of lying and cheating and they have done that for hundreds of years.

To discount the worry about deep fake images we can just assume all politicians are lying and we will be right far more often than wrong.

Dennis Fitzgerald,

Melbourne, Australia