Amazon now owns so much of downtown Seattle — around 46 buildings. Almost everything I see around me. (Microsoft is way out of the city, in Redmond.)

Looking across Dublin. Been like this non-stop the last hour — never seen so many fireworks

It’s a challenge that we’re now in an AI era where it’s incredibly easy/cheap to make synthetic video, simply from a text box on an app on your phone.
OpenAI, Google etc have policies against creating politically deceptive deepfakes. But other tools make it easy.

This particular political deepfake account uses the same brand styling as RTE. Its last fake video here, not quite as slick but still passable, got 114k views, 268 comments and 309 shares on Facebook. It’s still live after four days.

We knew this would happen. Note how realistic the visuals and voices are.
This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight.
1000s watching, commenters believing it.