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Deepfakes

Deepfakes are synthetic images, audio or video created with machine learning to convincingly depict a real person saying or doing something they never did, often by swapping or imitating a face or voice.

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FIRST SEEN
Sep 12, 2026
LAST SEEN
Oct 26, 2026

Recent signals

  • Ahead of US midterms, ChatGPT draws images "depicting election interference or that may discourage voting" in a cartoon style, ignoring photorealism requests (Katelyn Chedraoui/CNET) Oct 26, 2026
  • US candidates and PACs, mostly tied to Republicans, have spent $137M+ on 220 AI-generated campaign ads in 2026; ~70% of the 220 videos didn't disclose AI use (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times) Oct 16, 2026
  • CISOs Must Update Incident Response Playbooks for Multimodal Deepfakes, Gartner Warns Sep 22, 2026
  • AI is exposing a security structure built for yesterday’s threats Sep 15, 2026
  • Twenty police forces in England and Wales recorded 163 crimes involving keywords like "AI-generated", "deepfake", and "nudify" by July 2026, up from 10 in 2023 (Mark Tovey/Telegraph) Sep 12, 2026
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