Starmer abuse audio was a deepfake, according to French news agency
Hooray: it wasn’t him, according to someone else.
Concerns about threats posed to democracy by artificial intelligence have been raised after a French news agency said audio purporting to be of Labour leader Keir Starmer shouting abuse at his staff, was fake.
The clip, which This Site posted earlier, along with another, were manipulated by AI, according to French news agency AFP.
This Writer is satisfied that the claim may be legitimate, because AFP may under no circumstances fall under the control, either de facto or de jure, of any ideological, political or economic grouping.
The audio was posted onto X (formerly Twitter) by an anonymous account with only around 3,000 followers, so we can take those details as indicators of fakeness for the future.
Next time, if it hasn’t been verified by technicians at a reputable organisation (like the afore-mentioned, impartial AFP), perhaps we’ll be wiser to ignore it.
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3,000 followers are low? I have many followers in that range and see the # as an average.
3,000 followers are low? I have many followers in that range and personally see the # as an average. MSN has super large followers, but that doesn’t make them fool-proof. We need clearer proof than follower numbers – but that’s just my opinion.