Program Director of Propaganda Research at the Center for Media Engagement at UT, Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar Dr. Samuel Woolley was recently interviewed for the article “Campaign Context: Can fake AI images, videos still resonate with voters?” on KXAN. In the article, Dr. Woolley discusses AI images and deep fakes in the context of the 2024 presidential election and highlights potential ways AI images impact voters.
“Repetition is a core part of politics, it doesn’t matter if you believe something to be true. The more you hear it repeated, as with advertisements, as with everything, the more likely it is to stick in your brain. And so, with deep fakes, one of the key things that they do is repeat an idea that a politician or a group of people or maybe some bad actor somewhere wants you to remember” said Woolley.
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