AI has been promoting misinformation within political campaigns.

Question

This claim is true. In March, the Associated Press posted an article about how people have been using AI to create professional-looking content to cause influence within political campaigns. For instance, the article discusses how people have created deep fakes to spread misinformation. Here is the link to the article: https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-elections-disinformation-chatgpt-bc283e7426402f0b4baa7df280a4c3fd

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I've seen celebrities post about fake videos made about them endossring political parties, like Taylor swift. I am curious to see if this will make more celebrities public about their political beliefs to get ahead of these deep fakes. Maybe that will end up influencing people to vote a certain way too.

Answer 1

Associated Press News's claim in their article on AI disinformation in elections is true. Many elections have experienced disinformation due to AI, and the 2024 US election is being heavily watched. PBS News released an article about AI-generated disinformation and how it might play into the election quickly approaching. The article cites the possibilities being things like automated robocalls in a candidate's voice, telling voters untrue information about voting dates/times, generated video footage of something that never happened, or news articles generated to look like a local newsstand reporting on a candidate supposedly dropping out of the race. 

AI poses a very real threat to elections worldwide due to the believability of some of the generated disinformation content, as well as the possibility of turning countries, or groups within countries, against each other. Voters need to be careful and mindful when considering information about elections and where that information is coming from.

Source: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ai-generated-disinformation-poses-threat-of-misleading-voters-in-2024-election 

Answer 2

I believe this title to be Misleading. The structure of the title blames AI as the perpetrator of false information spread, but that can't be the case as AI is not sentient. It would be like blaming the food an obese person eats as the reason they are overweight. No, it's your fault for over eating. Because AI needs a user in order to "spread misinformation", headlines claiming AI as what's at fault is harmful to societies view of AI. If there were people to blame for using the AI, that is who should be cited in the title as a false news spreader. 

As shown in the article linked below, the use of AI in campaign material is strictly governed in 20/50 states. This less than dire issue is not unnoticed, but also is not the fault of AI as the claim states.

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/artificial-intelligence-ai-in-elections-and-campaigns

AI has been promoting misinformation within political campaigns.

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