“By the end of the second day, you’re like: Trust no one,” Dana Lewis, the county recorder in Pinal County who participated in the training, said.
In a December 2023 training, election officials were greeted by a video from Democratic Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes wishing them luck in the training.are videos in which a real person, oftentimes celebrities or politicians, are manipulated using AI to say typically false information.
After completing the training over the course of two days, election officials were told Fontes’s address was in fact a deepfake. As a part of the training, people representing the majority of Arizona’s counties were sorted into 10 teams. Each team was then assigned to a made-up county with a limited budget to reflect budgets that can constrain election workers. They went through exercises about potential threats AI could pose to them during the election.,” Fontes said. “You’ve got to make decisions in the moment. And there’s an element of surreality. It’s kind of real, but it’s not.
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