Shallow Fakes
- The year 2024 is set to witness a record-breaking number of elections globally, with over 50 nations conducting elections, involving half the planet's population.
- Shallow fakes, or cheap fakes, are manually altered or selectively edited images, videos, and voice clips created without AI technology, making them easier to produce and share.
- Deepfakes are AI-generated photorealistic images, videos, and audio designed to deceive, while shallow fakes rely on existing technologies like conventional editing or mis-captioning.
- The rise of shallow fakes raises concerns about their impact on the electoral process and the need for media literacy to combat misinformation ....