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Bernie Sanders: “Deep fake is getting better and better. You will have a very difficult time determining whether the person…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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It turns out it wasn't the person you thought saying it. That's happened to me already, all right? And it happens. It's happening increasingly all over. That's called deep fakes. So Deep fake is getting better and better. You will have a very difficult time determining whether the person who's talking is that person or not. And that is a real threat to democracy, among many other things. And then there is somebody raised up what we call the existential threat. Okay? So I talked to a guy. (20:50–21:01)

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Claims that deep fake technology is advancing, making it hard to verify authenticity.

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