Deepfake bot submitted 1,001 comments to Idaho Medicaid waiver website
A researcher created a bot that generated and submitted 1,001 deepfake comments to the federal public comment website for the Idaho Medicaid reform waiver in October 2019. The comments were indistinguishable from human submissions, and survey respondents could not tell them apart from real comments. The researcher later withdrew the comments. The study highlights the vulnerability of federal comment processes to automated manipulation.
- Date it happened
- 2019-10-26
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