Deepfakes: Identity Theft, and the Global Fight to Reclaim Control of Your Own Person
About this episode
This episode discusses the implications of deepfake technology on identity theft and political accountability.
U.S. Senator Rand Paul recently posted on X with a stark warning about deepfake technology. “ Deepfake lies can wreck an election in days. Free speech means you can mock politicians. It does not mean you can falsely accuse someone of crimes or treason. We need real accountability for defamation while protecting satire and dissent .” Ironic that deepfakes are causing concern in the U.S. when someone can fake a politican’s identity, but knowing Rand and Ron Paul’s history of calling out fraud and abuse in government generally, we can guess he’s trying to get the attention of politicians who could be deepfaked themselves. Just how bad is the deepfake situation? In mere seconds, AI can swap faces, alter voices, and fabricate entire scenes that look indistinguishable from reality. Someone can accuse a public figure of treason or corruption with chilling plausibility. Microsoft recently revealed deepfake capacity with one audio clip and one photograph, and you can barely tell it isn’t real. They can also deepfake an innocent person or a patriot and make them look and act like they said or did something that they never did, and with the speed of the internet, that deepfake is now all…
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