{"id":20213,"date":"2025-09-25T15:37:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/from-south-park-v-trump-to-ai-slopaganda-deepfakes-are-now-part-of-the-news-cycle-for-better-and-for-worse-anna-broinowski\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:37:26","slug":"from-south-park-v-trump-to-ai-slopaganda-deepfakes-are-now-part-of-the-news-cycle-for-better-and-for-worse-anna-broinowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/from-south-park-v-trump-to-ai-slopaganda-deepfakes-are-now-part-of-the-news-cycle-for-better-and-for-worse-anna-broinowski\/","title":{"rendered":"From South Park v Trump to AI slopaganda: deepfakes are now part of the news cycle, for better and for worse | Anna Broinowski"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deepfakes come with risks that demand urgent regulation. But it is vital their potential as a creative and satirical tool isn\u2019t stifled<\/p>\n

Salman Rushdie believes AI will not be a threat to authors until ChatGPT can write \u201ca funny book<\/a>\u201d. His faith in human over synthetic creativity may hold some truth in the literary space. But on our screens \u2013 from film, art and satire to the algorithmically turbo-charged, factually opaque, monetised churn of the 24\/7 news cycle \u2013 AI is already making us laugh.<\/p>\n

Deepfakes \u2013 synthetic audio and video of people doing and saying things they never said or did \u2013 are the chief comedic disruptors <\/strong>in a suite of increasingly persuasive AI tools shaping the post-truth reality envisioned by the Microsoft engineer Eric Horvitz, where fact and fiction are indistinguishable<\/a>. In eight short years, deepfakes have risen from cultural outlier to mainstream meme, embodying the futurist Roy Amara\u2019s Law<\/a>: we overestimate the effects of new technology in the short run, but underestimate its long-term impacts.<\/p>\n

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\nDeepfakes come with risks that demand urgent regulation. But it is vital their potential as a creative and satirical tool isn\u2019t stifled
\nSalman Rushdie believes AI will not be a threat to authors until ChatGPT can write \u201ca funny book\u201d. His faith in human over synthetic creativity may hold some truth in the literary space. But on our screens \u2013 from film, art and satire to the algorithmically turbo-charged, factually opaque, monetised churn of the 24\/7 news cycle \u2013 AI is already making us laugh.
\nDeepfakes \u2013 synthetic audio and video of people doing and saying things they never said or did \u2013 are the chief comedic disruptors in a suite of increasingly persuasive AI tools shaping the post-truth reality envisioned by the Microsoft engineer Eric Horvitz, where fact and fiction are indistinguishable. In eight short years, deepfakes have risen from cultural outlier to mainstream meme, embodying the futurist Roy Amara\u2019s Law: we overestimate the effects of new technology in the short run, but underestimate its long-term impacts. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deepfakes come with risks that demand urgent regulation. But it is vital their potential as a creative and satirical tool isn\u2019t stifled Salman Rushdie believes AI will not be a threat to authors until ChatGPT can write \u201ca funny book\u201d. His faith in human over synthetic creativity may hold some truth in the literary space. …<\/p>\n

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