Artificial intelligenceVoters across Asia contend with AI-generated fake videos and images
Increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence models are disrupting elections
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump posted on his X account this AI-generated image of a person resembling Vice President Kamala Harris standing in front of a flag resembling that of the Soviet Union. (Screenshot from Donald Trump's X account; Nikkei)
MASASHI IJICHI and RYO NAMIKI, Nikkei staff writers
January 18, 2025 10:36 JST
TOKYO -- For Philippine voters in the mid-term elections in May, Japanese in the upper house poll in July, and Singaporeans in the general election in November, deciding who to vote for could be more arduous than before as disinformation becomes ever more sophisticated.