{"id":6156,"date":"2025-09-24T12:48:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/?p=6156"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:25:00","slug":"survey-big-margins-support-protections-against-ai-powered-deepfakes-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/2025\/09\/24\/survey-big-margins-support-protections-against-ai-powered-deepfakes-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Big Margins Support Protections Against AI-Powered &#8220;Deepfakes&#8221; on Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Burt Glass<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>An overwhelming majority of Americans across the political spectrum support protections against \u201cdeepfakes\u201d in media that use a person\u2019s voice and visual likeness without permission, according to a new opinion survey designed by the Communication Research Center at Boston University\u2019s College of Communication and conducted by Ipsos.<\/p>\n<p>More than four of five (84%) respondents agreed or strongly agreed that individuals should be protected from the unauthorized use of their voice and visual likeness in digital replicas created by artificial intelligence, or AI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs social media platforms scale back content moderation and generative AI creates realistic imitations of <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/03\/08\/tech\/hollywood-celebrity-deepfakes-congress-law\">celebrities<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/07\/10\/nx-s1-5461427\/tiktok-creators-copy-ai-fakes\">creators<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/indicator.media\/p\/dozens-of-tiktok-accounts-use-ai-avatars-of-real-journalists-to-spread-fake-news\">journalists<\/a>, disinformation is spreading faster and more widely than ever before,\u201d said Michelle Amazeen, associate professor and CRC director at Boston University. \u201cIn this confusing environment, one principle has strong bipartisan support: the public overwhelmingly agrees that everyone\u2019s voice and image should be protected from unauthorized AI-generated recreations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/big-margins-support-protections-against-ai-powered-deepfakes-on-social-media-survey-finds\/\">Read full story here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Burt Glass An overwhelming majority of Americans across the political spectrum support protections against \u201cdeepfakes\u201d in media that use a person\u2019s voice and visual likeness without permission, according to a new opinion survey designed by the Communication Research Center at Boston University\u2019s College of Communication and conducted by Ipsos. More than four of five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6159,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156\/revisions\/6159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}