{"id":55742,"date":"2024-04-02T18:24:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T18:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/35733\/Microsoft-Warns-Deepfake-Election-Subversion-Is-Disturbingly-Easy.html"},"modified":"2024-04-02T18:24:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T18:24:35","slug":"microsoft-warns-deepfake-election-subversion-is-disturbingly-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/microsoft-warns-deepfake-election-subversion-is-disturbingly-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Warns Deepfake Election Subversion Is Disturbingly Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"

As hundreds of millions of voters around the globe prepare to elect their leaders this year, there’s no question that trolls will try to sway the outcomes using AI, according to Clint Watts, general manager of Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center.<\/p>\n

It’s unlikely that AI deception and misinformation will be as sophisticated as some fear, he reassured \u2013 but that doesn’t mean they will be any less effective. Because simple plans work.<\/p>\n

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AI audio has no contextual clues for the audience to evaluate<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“In 2024, there will be fakes,” Watts declared during an event<\/a> hosted by the Aspen Institute and Columbia University. “Some will be deep. Most will be shallow. And the simplest manipulations will travel the furthest on the internet.”<\/p>\n

Watts said his team spotted the first Russian social media account impersonating an American ten years ago. “And we used a tool \u2013 Microsoft Excel \u2013 which is incredible,” he quipped.<\/p>\n

Initially, Redmond\u2019s threat hunters (using Excel, of course) tracked Russian trolls testing their fake videos and images on locals, then moving on to Ukraine, Syria and Libya. “It was battlefields, and then it was taking it on the road to all of the European and US elections,” Watts recalled.<\/p>\n