Colorado Public Radio: t’s noon on election day and a video of Colorado’s Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold is circulating, telling people that the state’s polling places will be staying open until 10 p.m., three hours later than normal.

The problem; the video isn’t real. It’s a deepfake created by AI. 

This was one of the scenarios state election workers fielded during training on artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential to sow mis- and disinformation at their annual summer conference hosted this year in Grand Junction. 

This is the clerks’ first ever significant state training on AI, but as deepfakes transition from being easy to spot, and sometimes comical, to taking more sophisticated forms of deception, state and local election officials say training is critical. 

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