The Australian Electoral Commission says it has limited scope to protect voters from deepfake videos and phone calls imitating politicians in upcoming elections.
: The Australian Electoral Commission says Australian laws do not prevent the growing threat of deepfake political videos.The Australian Electoral Commission has warned it has limited scope to protect voters from deepfake videos and phone calls imitating politicians in upcoming elections.Experts have warned that generative artificial intelligence is now capable of producing images of faces that appear more human than actual faces.
Mr Rogers said generative AI — the technology responsible for most deepfakes — was a growing issue for elections, here and abroad."It's not unlawful to produce deepfakes in our election system. Now, just think about what that might mean," he said. "It's one thing to see an unethical player lying about their political opponent and creating a false narrative about their political opponent. It's quite another thing to get your political opponent to lie themselves and to generate the lies being told out of the mouth of your political opponent.Prior to the New Hampshire primaries in the US this year, a robocall using a fake Joe Biden voice urged voters to skip the election.
Mr Rogers said legislating new rules was a matter for the federal parliament, but noted the commission would monitor the progress of the South Korean initiative.
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