An explosion of AI deepfakes is redefining American elections

Campaign ads featuring AI-generated clips and images once sounded like a laughable concept. Now they're everywhere, with attack ads that place candidates in a wide variety of compromising — and fictitious — situations.Why it matters: This largely unregulated practice is warping the unspoken norms of political campaigns and blurring the line between truth and fiction.Some campaigns voluntarily disclose this AI use, but it's not required. Democrats want to change that if they retake control of Con...