Adverse use of AI

AI technology has been used to create deepfakes. That means to synthesize video of people doing things that they never actually did. The website BuzzFeed, created a video of former US President Barack Obama saying things that he never did. BuzzFeed was transparent about it when they published the video. In today's world of social media, a fake news could spread around the world faster than the truth can catch up. Even though there is AI technology detecting if a video is a deepfake, many people are concerned about the potential harm of deepfakes to individuals.
There's also a risk of AI technology being used to undermine democracy and privacy. Some oppressive regimes may use this type of technology to carry out oppressive surveillance of their citizens.
AI technology is also used to generate fake comments. Either fake comments of products on the commercial webside, or fake comments about political matters in the public discourse, generate fake comments using AI is much more efficient than have humans writing them. Detecting fake comments and weeding them out, is an important technology for maintaining trust in comments.
Similar to the battles of spam versus anti-spam and fraud verses anti-fraud, I'm optimistic about how these battles will play out.