Robocalls of President Biden confused voters earlier this month – but measures to curb the technology could be too little too late

‘Disinformation on steroids’: is the US prepared for AI’s influence on the election?::Robocalls of President Biden confused voters earlier this month – but measures to curb the technology could be too little too late

  • @jordanlundEnglish
    45•9 months ago

    We weren’t prepared for NORMAL disinformation much less AI disinformation.

    • @cmbabulEnglish
      16•9 months ago

      Weren’t and STILL ain’t

    • Match!!English
      15•9 months ago

      We’re not even prepared for complicated factual information

  • @[email protected]English
    10•9 months ago

    I like how the media is great at calling out very real dangers, but on a 5- to 10-year delay.

    sigh

  • @TropicalDingdongEnglish
    5•9 months ago

    Bro we’re not even prepared for informations effect on the election.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•9 months ago

      “Democracy dies in discussion”

      For real though, its so vitrolic right now that even anything seeming like mild critism for one team is seen as an attack on the future of humanity.

      • @TropicalDingdongEnglish
        1•9 months ago

        Its worse than I’ve ever seen it, and I was fully there for 2014-2016.

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    1•9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Already this year, a robocall generated using artificial intelligence targeted New Hampshire voters in the January primary, purporting to be President Joe Biden and telling them to stay home in what officials said could be the first attempt at using AI to interfere with a US election.

    It’s not clear if the deepfake calls actually prevented voters from turning out, but that doesn’t really matter, said Lisa Gilbert, executive vice-president of Public Citizen, a group that’s been pushing for federal and state regulation of AI’s use in politics.

    In Indonesia, an AI-generated avatar of a military commander helped rebrand the country’s defense minister as a “chubby-cheeked” man who “makes Korean-style finger hearts and cradles his beloved cat, Bobby, to the delight of Gen Z voters”, Reuters reported.

    There are less misleading uses of the technology to underscore a message, like the recent creation of AI audio calls using the voices of kids killed in mass shootings aimed at swaying lawmakers to act on gun violence.

    A recent pact among companies such as Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI includes “reasonable precautions” such as additional labeling of and education about AI-generated political content, though it wouldn’t ban the practice.

    At the national level, or with major public figures, debunking a deepfake happens fairly quickly, with outside groups and journalists jumping in to spot a spoof and spread the word that it’s not real.

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