What you need to know about AI and deepfakes before you vote [Video]

INDIANAPOLIS — Even before absentee ballots hit mailboxes and early voting centers open, there’s already a sense this election is unlike any other.

Fake videos, fake pictures and fake sound involving the candidates, their views and their activities are bombarding us online — sometimes without us even realizing it — trying to influence our vote.

Much of it is created by computer software featuring artificial intelligence, or “AI,” that produces realistic-looking images and sound that intentionally blur the lines between what’s real and what’s not.

“2024 is the first artificial intelligence election, and as with any technology, there’s going to be good uses and evil uses,” said State Sen. Spencer Deery (R-District 23). “When I start thinking about where AI is going … then I get scared, and I think it …