AI experimentation is high risk, high reward for low-profile political campaigns

One hundred percent the deepfake ad affected our campaign because we were a down-ballot...

While such attacks are staples of the rough-and-tumble of political campaigning, the ad targeting Perkins was notable: It's believed to be one of the first examples of an AI deepfake deployed in a political race in the U.S.

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