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It takes a few dollars and 8 minutes to create a deepfake. And that's only the start

It takes a few dollars and 8 minutes to create a deepfake. Sponsor Message "It was mostly to see if I could, and then realizing that it's so much easier than I thought," Mollick said in an interview with NPR. But he's among a growing chorus of people worried that this proliferation of what's known as "generative AI" will supercharge propaganda and influence campaigns by bad actors. "Language models are a natural tool for propagandists," said Josh Goldstein, a research fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology. "But that's very different than having these technologies baked into fundamental infrastructure," like consumer software and social apps, "before we know that they are safe," he said.

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