Advocates responded with deep skepticism on Friday after 20 major tech companies—including Microsoft, Google, Meta, and OpenAI—signed an accord pledging to combat the proliferation of AI-generated deepfakes during elections across the globe this year. “The intentional and undisclosed generation and distribution of Deceptive AI Election content can deceive the publicin ways that jeopardize the integrity of electoral processes,” the accord reads, defining such content as “convincing AI-generated audio, video, and images that deceptively fake or alter the appearance, voice, or actions of politica…