{"id":25192,"date":"2026-09-30T10:37:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T08:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/as-ai-images-become-common-the-threat-to-elections-draws-alarm-how-will-voters-know-whats-true\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T08:37:38","slug":"as-ai-images-become-common-the-threat-to-elections-draws-alarm-how-will-voters-know-whats-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/as-ai-images-become-common-the-threat-to-elections-draws-alarm-how-will-voters-know-whats-true\/","title":{"rendered":"As AI images become common, the threat to elections draws alarm: \u2018How will voters know what\u2019s true?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deepfakes and misinformation driven by artificial intelligence have become a point of deep concern for legislators, advocates and the public<\/p>\n<p>An image of College Park, Georgia mayor Bianca Motley Broom kissing a man \u2013 who was not her husband \u2013 in a bar spread far and wide on Facebook. The fact that it\u2019s fake is spreading faster, now, but only after it had been seen by thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is a sad commentary about where we are in our democracy, and where we are in our political discourse,\u201d Motley Broom said. \u201cIt also seeks to reinforce really tired stereotypes about women in leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/30\/ai-deepfakes-politicans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/90205fdbc5bfd3b26f6750ebb29f52c206fa979a\/0_140_3400_2720\/master\/3400.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b299aa5006faba6ea546094ae9e7f4ea\" title=\"As AI images become common, the threat to elections draws alarm: \u2018How will voters know what\u2019s true?\u2019\" \/>Deepfakes and misinformation driven by artificial intelligence have become a point of deep concern for legislators, advocates and the public<br \/>\nAn image of College Park, Georgia mayor Bianca Motley Broom kissing a man \u2013 who was not her husband \u2013 in a bar spread far and wide on Facebook. The fact that it\u2019s fake is spreading faster, now, but only after it had been seen by thousands of people.<br \/>\n\u201cI think this is a sad commentary about where we are in our democracy, and where we are in our political discourse,\u201d Motley Broom said. \u201cIt also seeks to reinforce really tired stereotypes about women in leadership.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deepfakes and misinformation driven by artificial intelligence have become a point of deep concern for legislators, advocates and the public An image of College Park, Georgia mayor Bianca Motley Broom kissing a man \u2013 who was not her husband \u2013 in a bar spread far and wide on Facebook. The fact that it\u2019s fake is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/as-ai-images-become-common-the-threat-to-elections-draws-alarm-how-will-voters-know-whats-true\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">As AI images become common, the threat to elections draws alarm: \u2018How will voters know what\u2019s true?\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25193,"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\/25192"}],"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=25192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}