FBI uncovers deceptive AI deepfakes in 2024 election's final hours

WASHINGTON — The competing claims flying across our screens have heated up in recent weeks, but we ain’t seen nothing yet.

Election experts and tech firms are bracing for a flood of artificial intelligence-fueled deepfakes, coupled with a torrent of more traditional mis- and disinformation efforts, in these final hours of the 2024 election.

“The most perilous moment will come, I think, 48 hours before the election,” Microsoft President Brad Smith warned the Senate Intelligence Committee at a hearing earlier this fall.