As AI images become common, the threat to elections draws alarm: ‘How will voters know what’s true?’

The fact that it’s fake is spreading faster, now, but only after it had been seen by thousands of people.“I think this is a sad commentary about where we are in our democracy, and where we are in our political discourse,” Motley Broom said. “It also seeks to reinforce really tired stereotypes about women in leadership.”Six years ago, when Motley Broom first took office in the Atlanta suburb, a political enemy might have needed at least rudimentary skill with image-editing software to forge an image of a politician in a compromising position. Kaelan Dorr, the White House deputy communications director, later described the image as a “meme”.Fake images of Zohran Mamdami, New York’s mayor, also began circulating from a “parody” account on X in February, falsely depicting him and his mother in the company of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.