Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned of the threat of AI deepfakes during a Columbia University panel discussion on Thursday. (Franziska Krug/Getty Images)
Clinton argued it was that leap to social media that accelerated the false content’s integration with everyday Americans.
"There are people today who think I've done all these terrible things because they saw it on the internet. And they saw it on the internet in their Facebook feed or some, you know, Twitter this or Snapchat that. They were, you know, following the breadcrumbs," she said, warning of those efforts: "And what they did to me was primitive."
The former Democratic presidential nominee claimed the online conspiracies about her are now being used to create more sophisticated false content with more advanced technology.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray has also warned about the threat of AI deepfakes in this coming election. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Those same officials are also concerned about the threat of hostile foreign actors intervening in the 2024 cycle.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray warned in a speech last month that AI technology is lowering the barrier to entry for malign actors looking to meddle in U.S. elections.
"This election cycle, the U.S. will face more adversaries moving at a faster pace and enabled by new technology," Wray said.
"Advances in generative AI, for instance, are lowering the barrier to entry, making it easier for both more and less sophisticated foreign adversaries to engage in malign influence while making foreign influence efforts by players both old and new, more realistic and more difficult to detect."
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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