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Saturday, March 16th, 2024

Election disinformation takes a big leap with AI being used to deceive worldwide

Author:     ALI SWENSON and KELVIN CHAN
Source:     Associated Press
Publication Date:     March 14, 2024 | 12:46 AM PDT
 Link: Election disinformation takes a big leap with AI being used to deceive worldwide
Stephan:  

This is what really concerns me, not just for the United States but all the democracies of the world. If your source of information is social media, most of what you are reading is partial or complete misinformation. I fear it is going to warp the outcome of the U.S. election, where 54% of the adults can’t read past elementary school sentences such as: The man walked across the street.  The only way through this miasma of misinformation, I can see is to only choose that or whom fosters compassionate life-affirming wellbeing. If we can get enough people to commit to that we may be able to save our democracy.

Paul Carpenter describes AI software during an interview in New Orleans, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. Carpenter says he was hired in January to use AI software to imitate President Joe Biden’s voice to convince New Hampshire Democrat voters not to vote in the state’s presidential primary. Credit: Matthew Hinton / AP

LONDON, ENGLAND — Artificial intelligence is supercharging the threat of election disinformation worldwide, making it easy for anyone with a smartphone and a devious imagination to create fake – but convincing – content aimed at fooling voters.

It marks a quantum leap from a few years ago, when creating phony photos, videos or audio clips required teams of people with time, technical skill and money. Now, using free and low-cost generative artificial intelligence services from companies like Google and OpenAI, anyone can create high-quality “deepfakes” with just a simple text prompt.

A wave of AI deepfakes tied to elections in Europe and Asia has coursed through social media for months, serving as a warning for more than 50 countries heading to the polls this year.

“You don’t need to look far to see some people … being clearly confused as to whether something is real or not,” said […]

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