Clooney tells Venice festival that AI threatens film and journalism

VENICE, Sept 2 : U.S. actor George Clooney warned on Wednesday that advances in artificial intelligence were making it increasingly difficult to distinguish truth from fiction, posing a challenge for journalists, governments and the public.Speaking at the Venice Film Festival, where he is receiving a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, the actor, filmmaker and political activist said deepfake technology and AI-generated content were undermining trust in information."It's getting harder and harder for us to discern the truth," Clooney told reporters, adding that the burgeoning technology could make people doubt genuine evidence."Worse than that, because you poison the well of saying 'maybe this is true', 'maybe this isn't', then when you see real things that are really true, people are ab