Is democracy at risk? Helped by AI, deepfakes are becoming ever harder to detect. Experts fear that they could already be tipping the balance in closely run political contests.
Experts fear year of Deepfake Elections
Election deception: An estimated two billion people will vote in national elections this year. Glossary
Tory - A member of the Conservative party.
Labour - Britain's main left-of-centre political party.
Conservative party - A British political party. Members are known as Tories.
Deepfakes - This technique uses artificial intelligence to change the identity of a person in an image or a video — or to make it appear that a person is saying or doing something that they never said or did.
Aides - Assistants to important people.
Liberal - Liberalism is a school of political thought that stresses individual liberty. Liberals believe that society should not try to impose values or behaviours on individuals but should be tolerant of different lifestyles. A leading exponent of liberal thought was the 19th-century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, the author of the classic work On Liberty.
Subsequently - Following on from.
Precedents - Earlier events that are then used as guides or examples.
Unscrupulous - Having no morals, or behaving in an unfair or dishonest way.
Undermine - To deliberately make something or someone less likely to succeed.
Corrosive - Capable of destroying or eating away at something. Usually used to describe certain acids.
Veracity - Accuracy or truthfulness.