Nowadays, AI (artificial intelligence) is a really popular topic. It’s capable of executing human-requested commands in seconds. Also, it is used in many ways, from technological devices to educational needs. My topic today is to discuss the effect of using AI to clone voices and images in order to create a fake video of someone, especially a “leader.”
These days, AI can be used to clone voices of someone, also their video, as I mentioned before. A positive aspect of this is that we can take low-quality recordings of great world leaders like Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, improve the quality of their voice, and publish it. For example, on the 29th of October, the sound of Atatürk was in many places, and it was improved by AI. On the negative side, it created chaos because the voices and videos of politicians like Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu were cloned, and things they didn’t really say were published, and people believed some of these fakes.
So if it is used for good, it can be really useful. But it can also create unwanted situations if used wrongly.