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Fears UK not ready for deepfake general election - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)

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The threat posed to democracy by AI-generated misinformation does not belong to some dystopian vision of the future, he argues.

"The future is here. It's happening.

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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical-journal/article/abs/levels-of-illiteracy-in-england-15301730/6C8C904F5F80CC64DAF6AF21A8A647EF

Protestation Returns, House of Lords Record Office, summarized in Schofield, ‘Illiteracy in pre-industrial England’, p. 11; Essex figures are derived from returns to the Protestation of 1642, the Vow and Covenant of 1643 and the Solemn League and Covenant of 1644, Cressy, David, ‘Education and literacy in London and East Anglia, 1580–1700’, Cambridge University Ph.D. thesis, 1972, pp. 283–94 Google Scholar. Declarations from three Suffolk and one Norfolk parishes preserved in local collections show 46 per cent illiteracy in Suffolk and 72 per cent in Norfolk, Cressy, , thesis, p. 294 Google Scholar, and Breckles, Norfolk, parish register with incumbent.

It was a utopian time, free of the troubles of the modern era.