In a conference room at a recent cybersecurity training, I found myself squinting at a screen, playing a high-stakes game of "real or fake." The assignment was straightforward - sort out which images projected in front of us were authentic and which were AI-generated. Most in the room, myself included, struggled to tell the difference.

It was a wake-up call. If a group of AI-informed participants had trouble distinguishing fakes, how easily could these deceptions skew the information creeping into the feeds of Mississippi voters?

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