{"id":12919,"date":"2024-01-12T16:37:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T15:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/12\/slew-of-deepfake-video-adverts-of-sunak-on-facebook-raises-alarm-over-ai-risk-to-election\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T16:37:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T15:37:21","slug":"slew-of-deepfake-video-adverts-of-sunak-on-facebook-raises-alarm-over-ai-risk-to-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/12\/slew-of-deepfake-video-adverts-of-sunak-on-facebook-raises-alarm-over-ai-risk-to-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Slew of deepfake video adverts of Sunak on Facebook raises alarm over AI risk to election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research finds more than 100 paid ads impersonating PM were promoted on social media platform in last month<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2024\/jan\/12\/post-office-horizon-it-scandal-inquiry-threats-bbc-conservatives-labour-uk-politics-latest-updates\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than 100 deepfake video advertisements impersonating Rishi Sunak were paid to be promoted on Facebook in the last month alone, according to research that has raised alarm about the risk AI poses before the general election.<\/p>\n<p>The adverts may have reached as many as 400,000 people \u2013 despite appearing to break several of Facebook\u2019s policies \u2013 and mark the first time that the prime minister\u2019s image has been doctored in a systematic way en masse.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/jan\/12\/deepfake-video-adverts-sunak-facebook-alarm-ai-risk-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9d5e9162023d9ccd0cbd76fb9081df1df2fb2e4e\/0_111_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=34cc9590a79eb76db38f6de630199dc8\" title=\"Slew of deepfake video adverts of Sunak on Facebook raises alarm over AI risk to election\" \/>Research finds more than 100 paid ads impersonating PM were promoted on social media platform in last month<br \/>\nUK politics live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nMore than 100 deepfake video advertisements impersonating Rishi Sunak were paid to be promoted on Facebook in the last month alone, according to research that has raised alarm about the risk AI poses before the general election.<br \/>\nThe adverts may have reached as many as 400,000 people \u2013 despite appearing to break several of Facebook\u2019s policies \u2013 and mark the first time that the prime minister\u2019s image has been doctored in a systematic way en masse. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research finds more than 100 paid ads impersonating PM were promoted on social media platform in last month UK politics live \u2013 latest updates More than 100 deepfake video advertisements impersonating Rishi Sunak were paid to be promoted on Facebook in the last month alone, according to research that has raised alarm about the risk &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/12\/slew-of-deepfake-video-adverts-of-sunak-on-facebook-raises-alarm-over-ai-risk-to-election\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slew of deepfake video adverts of Sunak on Facebook raises alarm over AI risk to election<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12919"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}