Trump speeds AI-driven truth decay

Donald Trump's false charge that his opponent used artificial intelligence to forge a photo of a crowd of supporters shows yet another dimension of AI's potential to harm democracy. AI's greatest danger, many experts in the field argue, isn't that it can be used to manufacture falsehoods—but that its very existence makes it so easy to undermine the truth. Trump posted a message on Truth Social Sunday claiming that photos showing Vice President Kamala Harris meeting a large crowd of supporters on a Detroit runway were doctored. In reality, many people have affirmed they were there and saw the crowds. Many of those people took their own photos. Warnings about the danger of deepfakes have helped arm the public against an expected flood of fakery. But they've also unavoidably made it possible to question the trustworthiness of any evidence you don't like. The next time a recording surfaces of some private event where a politician said something damaging, it will be that much easier to deny it.