Spain’s opposition posts AI deepfakes of Sánchez’s wife before election
A minister calls the People’s party video “a colossal lie”, and one woman it depicts has gone to court. Most of the experts El País asked say the Spain deepfake video is legal.
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Spain’s main opposition party has posted a campaign video built with AI deepfakes. In it, likenesses of people linked to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists appear to confess to wrongdoing. The conservative People’s party (PP) shared it on 21 October, five weeks before the 29 November general election.
By Friday the video had nearly 2 million views. Ashifa Kassam reported for the Guardian that it has set off a wider debate in Spain about AI in politics. The PP has…
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