Farid Hany
School of Information, University of California, Berkeley, South Hall, Berkeley, CA 94708, USA.
PNAS Nexus. 2025 Jul 29;4(7):pgaf194. doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf194. eCollection 2025 Jul.
The ability to distort the visual record is not new. Airbrushed images attempted to alter the historical archives in the early 1900s. Today, digitally manipulated cheapfakes and deepfakes supercharge the spread of lies and conspiracies. While not fundamentally new, today's enhanced ability to easily create, distribute, and amplify manipulated media has heightened the risks. Reasonable and proportional interventions can and should be adopted that would allow for the creative uses of these powerful new technologies while mitigating the risk they pose to individuals, societies, and democracies.
歪曲视觉记录的能力并非新鲜事。20世纪初，经过修饰的图像就试图改变历史档案。如今，通过数字手段操纵的廉价伪造品和深度伪造品加速了谎言和阴谋的传播。虽然从根本上来说并非新鲜事物，但如今轻松创建、传播和放大被操纵媒体的能力得到增强，这增加了风险。可以而且应该采取合理且适度的干预措施，在允许创造性地使用这些强大新技术的同时，降低它们给个人、社会和民主制度带来的风险。
