As AI images become common, the threat to elections draws alarm: ‘How will voters know what’s true?’

Deepfakes and misinformation driven by artificial intelligence have become a point of deep concern for legislators, advocates and the public An image of College Park, Georgia mayor Bianca Motley Broom kissing a man – who was not her husband – in a bar spread far and wide on Facebook. The fact that it’s fake is spreading faster, now, but only after it had been seen by thousands of people.