Daniel S. Schiff

Merging AI Incidents Research with Political Misinformation Research: Introducing the Political Deepfakes Incidents Database

This article presents the Political Deepfakes Incidents Database (PDID), a collection of politically-salient deepfakes, encompassing synthetically-created videos, images, and less-sophisticated `cheapfakes.' The project is driven by the rise of generative AI in politics, ongoing policy efforts to ad…