The Colorado Sun: The other day I got a message from a friend asking if a picture of President Donald Trump using a walker was real. Because they knew I spend most of my days working for very political groups, most prominently the anti-Trump organization The Lincoln Project, they figured I would be a good source for verification.

Despite wishing otherwise, I had to tell them it was not real. The image circulating the internet is AI-generated to make Trump look even older and weaker than he is.

The increased use of artificial intelligence has added jet fuel to deepfakes and conspiracy theories that have plagued the political landscape over the past decade. Once relegated to backwater, dark web corners of the internet, misleading photos and videos have inundated almost every area of our online lives.

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