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As the war between Israel and Hamas rages on, Jake Denton, research associate for The Heritage Foundation\\u2019s Tech Policy Center, breaks down what the role of artificial intelligence has been in the conflict. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)

\\u201cI think the one that everyone jumps to is the [artificial intelligence]-generated content, deepfakes, things of that nature,\\u201d Denton says. 

\\u201cThere\\u2019s a few stories of synthetic audio recordings of a general saying that an attack\\u2019s coming or those types of things that we\\u2019ve even seen in the Russia-Ukraine conflict,\\u201d Denon says. \\u201cThey go around on Telegram or WhatsApp.\\u201d

\\u201cThey\\u2019re taken as fact because they sound really convincing. You add some background noise, and suddenly it\\u2019s like a whole production in an audio file,\\u201d Denton adds. \\u201cAnd typically, what you\\u2019re picking up on in a video is like the lips don\\u2019t sync, and so you know the audio is fake. When it\\u2019s an audio file, how do you even tell?\\u201d

Denton also highlights social media platforms such as the Chinese-owned app, TikTok. 

\\u201cAnd so, what you\\u2019re seeing right now, especially on platforms like TikTok, is they\\u2019re just promoting things that are either fake or actual real synthetic media, like a true deepfake from the ground up and altered video, altered audio, all these things are getting promoted,\\u201d Denton says, adding: 

And kids, at no fault of their own, are consuming this stuff, and they\\u2019re taking as fact. It\\u2019s what you do.

You see a person with a million followers that has 12 million likes and you\\u2019re like, \\u201cThis is a real video.\\u201d You don\\u2019t really expect these kids to fact-check.

Denton joins today\\u2019s episode of \\u201cThe Daily Signal Podcast\\u201d to also discuss President Joe Biden\\u2018s executive order on artificial intelligence, what he views as social media companies\\u2019 roles in monitoring artificial intelligence and combating fake images and videos, and how people can equip themselves to identify fake images and videos online.

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