Candidates are deploying self-deepfakes at electoral scale; voters often cannot tell.

Quoted text

India’s elections are a glimpse of the AI-driven future of democracy. Politicians are using audio and video deepfakes of themselves to reach voters—who may have no idea they’ve been talking to a clone.

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Analyst rationale

Consent-of-the-candidate does not remove the civic risk: the public cannot audit who they are actually speaking to. Synthetic media as campaign infrastructure.