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title: "Deepfakes"
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updated: 2026-10-27T01:45:07.000Z
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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.

Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/topics/deepfakes

- **Type:** Topic
- **Signals:** 5
- **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)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/ahead-of-us-midterms-chatgpt-draws-images-depicting-election-4a0565fb) (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)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/us-candidates-and-pacs-mostly-tied-to-republicans-have-spent-137m-on-6244b99f) (Oct 16, 2026)
- [CISOs Must Update Incident Response Playbooks for Multimodal Deepfakes, Gartner Warns](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/cisos-must-update-incident-response-playbooks-for-multimodal-deepfakes-876b60a8) (Sep 22, 2026)
- [AI is exposing a security structure built for yesterday’s threats](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/ai-is-exposing-a-security-structure-built-for-yesterdays-threats-04d27fbb) (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)](https://frontiernewswire.com/s/twenty-police-forces-in-england-and-wales-recorded-163-crimes-4a46b9d5) (Sep 12, 2026)

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- [ChatGPT](https://frontiernewswire.com/models/chatgpt) (Model)

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