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FILE - Baltimore County Police Chief Robert McCullough and other local officials speak at a news conference in Towson, Md., April 25, 2024. The most recent criminal case to involve artificial intelligence has emerged from a high school in Baltimore County, Maryland. That's where police say a principal was framed by a fake recording of his voice. (Kim Hairston/The Baltimore Sun via AP, file)

Deepfake of principal’s voice is the latest case of AI being used for harm

By Ben Finley - Associated Press

In this Monday, July 1, 2019, photo Hany Farid, a digital forensics expert at the University of California at Berkeley, gestures as he views video clips in his office in Berkeley, Calif. Dumb fakes, shallow fakes and cheap fakes, experts are still undecided on how to label the poorly made manipulated videos being viewed millions of times and even spread by high-ranking politicians. But they are sure that social media users will see much more of these videos ahead of the U.S. 2020 presidential elections. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Deepfake videos pose a threat, but ‘dumbfakes’ may be worse

By BEATRICE DUPUY and BARBARA ORTUTAY - Associated Press