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Sorell, Tom (2023) Deepfakes and political misinformation in U.S. elections. Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 27 (3). pp. 363-386. doi:10.5840/techne20231110190 ISSN 2691-5928.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.5840/techne20231110190
Abstract
Audio and video footage produced with the help of AI can show politicians doing discreditable things that they have not actually done. This is deepfaked material. Philosophers and lawyers have recently claimed that deepfakes along these lines have special powers to harm the people depicted and their audiences –powers that more traditional forms of faked imagery and sound footage lack. According to some philosophers, deepfakes are particularly “believable”, and the technology that can produce them is or will soon be widely available, so that deepfakes will proliferate. I first give reasons why deepfake technology is not particularly well suited to producing “believable” political misinformation in a sense to be defined. Next, I challenge the two most prominent philosophical claims –from Don Fallis and Regina Rini--about the consequences of the wide availability of deep fakes. My argument is not that deepfakes are harmless, but that their power to do major harm in liberal party political environments that contain sophisticated mass-media is highly conditional.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Deepfakes -- Political aspects, Deepfakes -- Social aspects, Disinformation -- Prevention, Political participation -- Technological innovations -- United States, Communication in politics - Technological innovations -- United States, Internet in political campaigns -- United States, Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States, Communication - Political aspects | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology | ||||||
Publisher: | Society for Philosophy and Technology | ||||||
ISSN: | 2691-5928 | ||||||
Official Date: | 11 November 2023 | ||||||
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Volume: | 27 | ||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 363-386 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.5840/techne20231110190 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 November 2022 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 December 2023 | ||||||
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