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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kate Devlin

UK democracy under ‘immense strain’ with just 3% of voters able to tell if a video is real or AI, charity warns

UK democracy is under “immense and increasing strain” because of disinformation increasingly being spread by artificial intelligence (AI), with just 3 per cent of the public able to very easily tell if an online video is genuine.

Full Fact, the fact-checking charity, said there had been a surge in AI-assisted content in the last year and information had become too easy to manipulate and harder to trust.

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