How AI deepfakes polluted elections in 2024
3 months ago

How AI deepfakes polluted elections in 2024

NPR  

How AI deepfakes polluted elections in 2024 toggle caption Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP via Getty Images In January, thousands of New Hampshire voters picked up their phones to hear what sounded like President Biden telling Democrats not to vote in the state's primary, just days away. "It wasn't quite the year of AI elections like many folks foretold," said Zeve Sanderson, who studies how digital information is changing society at NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics. Sponsor Message "I am Suharto, the second president of Indonesia," the AI Suharto says before endorsing the party's candidates, in a video posted to the social media site X by Golkar's deputy chairman. Sanderson said this use of AI is not meant to change people's minds, but to "make their preferred candidate look patriotic or noble to make their opposing candidate look evil."

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X’s Grok AI revives concern about deepfakes ahead of Delhi Assembly election
2 months, 2 weeks ago

X’s Grok AI revives concern about deepfakes ahead of Delhi Assembly election

The Hindu  

The Aam Aadmi Party posted an Artificial Intelligence-generated deepfake of B.R. Unlike the policy followed by other AI chatbots, X’s owner Elon Musk has decided against prohibiting imagery based on real life political figures, leading to a mushrooming of such content on Grok. Nehru deepfakes power parody For instance, an X account riffs on the constant blaming of India’s first …

Did artificial intelligence shape the 2024 US election?
3 months ago

Did artificial intelligence shape the 2024 US election?

Al Jazeera  

Days after New Hampshire voters received a robocall with an artificially generated voice that resembled President Joe Biden’s, the Federal Communications Commission banned the use of AI-generated voices in robocalls. “This was not ‘the AI election.’” Daniel Schiff, assistant professor of technology policy at Purdue University, said there was no “massive eleventh-hour campaign” that misled voters about polling places and …

Meta says AI had only ‘modest’ impact on global elections in 2024
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Meta says AI had only ‘modest’ impact on global elections in 2024

Al Jazeera  

The Facebook and Instagram owner says its defences were able to prevent AI-driven misinformation operations from gaining an online foothold. Despite fears that artificial intelligence could influence the outcome of elections around the world, the United States technology giant Meta said it detected little impact across its platforms this year. “I don’t think the use of generative AI was a …

How AI has been used this campaign cycle
4 months, 2 weeks ago

How AI has been used this campaign cycle

NPR  

How AI has been used this campaign cycle Earlier in the year, an AI-generated clone of President Biden's voice in a campaign robocall captured the public's attention about what generative artificial intelligence is capable of. But while it can be used to manufacture evidence of things that didn't happen, the main use of AI in U.S. political campaigns this year …

FBI uncovers deceptive AI deepfakes in 2024 election's final hours
4 months, 2 weeks ago

FBI uncovers deceptive AI deepfakes in 2024 election's final hours

Raw Story  

WASHINGTON — The competing claims flying across our screens have heated up in recent weeks, but we ain’t seen nothing yet. “Apparently we're just gonna, you know, hope for the best,” Sen. Josh Hawley — one of the louder voices calling for AI guardrails in this Congress — told Raw Story. “I don't think there's going to be a major …

AI is helping shape the 2024 presidential race. But not in the way experts feared
6 months ago

AI is helping shape the 2024 presidential race. But not in the way experts feared

LA Times  

With the 2024 election between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump looming, experts feared a flood of realistic AI-generated deepfakes to baffle voters. Another showed a group of kittens holding a sign that read, “DON’T LET THEM EAT US, Vote for Trump!” Francesca Tripodi, an expert in online propaganda, said such AI-made images are new, viral vehicles to …

How AI-generated memes are changing the 2024 election
6 months, 3 weeks ago

How AI-generated memes are changing the 2024 election

NPR  

How AI-generated memes are changing the 2024 election toggle caption @TRUMP_ARMY/screenshot by NPR Last week, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social an artificial intelligence-generated image of Taylor Swift in an Uncle Sam outfit, falsely claiming she had endorsed him. The image is clearly fake and was accompanied by other depictions, some also apparently AI-generated, of young women in T-shirts reading …

Tech Tonic | AI has wedged itself into elections, and there’s nothing we can do
7 months, 1 week ago

Tech Tonic | AI has wedged itself into elections, and there’s nothing we can do

Hindustan Times  

In March, and many took that in part as a warning and partly as an acknowledgement of the potential of interference in elections, Google confirmed that the Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot will not answer questions about the elections in many countries this year. Even before the turn of this year, a looming threat of AI’s effect on global elections was …

"Recipe for disaster": Experts issue warning after Elon Musk shares fake AI video of Kamala Harris
7 months, 3 weeks ago

"Recipe for disaster": Experts issue warning after Elon Musk shares fake AI video of Kamala Harris

Salon  

X owner Elon Musk's reshare of a manipulated, faux campaign ad for Vice President Kamala Harris on social media last week raised alarms because he did not disclose that the clip, which parroted rightwing takes about the likely Democratic nominee, was a parody. While frequent X users who saw the clip could click through to the original post and see …

AI could supercharge disinformation and disrupt EU elections, experts warn
9 months, 2 weeks ago

AI could supercharge disinformation and disrupt EU elections, experts warn

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — Voters in the European Union are set to elect lawmakers starting Thursday for the bloc’s parliament, in a major democratic exercise that’s also likely to be overshadowed by online disinformation. “Russian state- He said Russia’s “information manipulation” efforts are taking advantage of increasing use of social media penetration “and cheap AI-assisted operations.” Bots are being used to push …

2024 Is the Year of the Generative AI Election
9 months, 3 weeks ago

2024 Is the Year of the Generative AI Election

Wired  

I’m a reporter on the WIRED Politics desk, and I’m taking over for Makena this week to talk about politicians rising from the dead in India and the rapper Eminem endorsing opposition parties in South Africa. Or perhaps you’re one of the people whom WIRED contributors Nilesh Christopher and Varsha Bansal spoke to for this great WIRED feature, and who …

AI-generated photos and videos pose threat to General Election as 'deep-fake' images could be used to attack politicians' characters, spread hate, and erode trust in democracy
9 months, 3 weeks ago

AI-generated photos and videos pose threat to General Election as 'deep-fake' images could be used to attack politicians' characters, spread hate, and erode trust in democracy

Daily Mail  

Regulators must 'act quickly' to introduce safeguards protecting the electoral process from the threat posed by artificial intelligence, experts have urged. The warning came as a study found that bogus photographs and video footage generated by AI could influence the coming General Election in a string of sinister ways. It concluded that so-called 'deepfake' imagery could be used for character …

Discerning truth becomes a tough task with rise of Artificial Intelligence
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Discerning truth becomes a tough task with rise of Artificial Intelligence

New Indian Express  

VISAKHAPATNAM: Scrolling through his news feed with a frown, a first-time voter seated in the politically charged milieu of a local tea shop remarks, “Every time I come across something online these days, it makes me question its authenticity.” Rao, who has voted in every election since he was 18, leans in closer, squinting at the screen. While the rise …

Deepfakes of Aamir Khan and Ranveer Singh raise worries over AI misuse in Lok Sabha election 2024
11 months ago

Deepfakes of Aamir Khan and Ranveer Singh raise worries over AI misuse in Lok Sabha election 2024

Hindustan Times  

In fake videos that have gone viral online, two of India's A-lister Bollywood actors are seen criticizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and asking people to vote for the opposition Congress party in the country's ongoing general election. Indian actor Aamir Khan In a 30-second video that shows Aamir Khan and another 41-second clip of Ranveer Singh, the two Bollywood actors …

Elections During the Time of AI & Deepfakes: How Dangerous It is, Can We Do Something About It?
1 year ago

Elections During the Time of AI & Deepfakes: How Dangerous It is, Can We Do Something About It?

News 18  

M Karunanidhi, the DMK patriarch who died in 2018, appeared on a big screen as Tamil Nadu chief minister unveiled the party’s manifesto for the Lok Sabha election. With the world’s biggest elections taking place in the country, AI and deepfakes are making their way into electioneering by promoting certain candidates and sending personalised messages to the targeted audience. “Deepfakes …

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

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

Associated Press  

LONDON — 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. Some recent examples of AI deepfakes include: — A video of Moldova’s pro-Western president throwing her support behind a political party friendly to Russia. …

How AI-Generated Deepfakes Are Playing A Role In 2024 Indian Elections. What Users Can Do To Avoid Pitfalls
1 year ago

How AI-Generated Deepfakes Are Playing A Role In 2024 Indian Elections. What Users Can Do To Avoid Pitfalls

ABP News  

Artificial intelligence and simulated content have spurned discussions on robot takeovers, ethics, job losses, and financial fraud. But in a year of “super elections,” AI is playing a major role in campaigning — and in India, cheap and easy tools are being used to create content ranging from memes to deepfakes and simulated audio. AI's Use During Campaigning We’ve usually …

Indian political parties embrace deepfakes for 2024 Lok Sabha Election campaigns
1 year, 1 month ago

Indian political parties embrace deepfakes for 2024 Lok Sabha Election campaigns

Live Mint  

The poll bungle has been sounded, as India prepares to witness yet another dance of democracy during the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. According to an Al Jazeera report, teams across India’s political parties, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, and the Congress, are deploying deepfakes to influence voters. In three videos, Tiwari addressed voters in Delhi ahead of …

Deepfake democracy: Behind the AI trickery shaping India’s 2024 election
1 year, 1 month ago

Deepfake democracy: Behind the AI trickery shaping India’s 2024 election

Al Jazeera  

Want an opponent to campaign for you? “Politics is about creating perception; with AI tools and a click, you can turn the perception on its head in a minute,” said Arun Reddy, the national coordinator for social media at the Congress, who oversaw the party’s tech-savvy Telangana election. “But I know many people who are doing it for very low …

"Terrifying": Expert outlines "endless" ways AI could "further fracture" elections and our democracy
1 year, 1 month ago

"Terrifying": Expert outlines "endless" ways AI could "further fracture" elections and our democracy

Salon  

Misinformation and disinformation have always posed a threat to elections, fostering distrust in the voting process and endangering election workers. In other election campaigns, we have seen “faked candidate content” spreading disinformation, Oren Etzioni, professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington and Founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI, told Salon. “One of the prominent ways people …

‘Abuse’: Politicians are fretting about AI stealing their faces and voices
1 year, 1 month ago

‘Abuse’: Politicians are fretting about AI stealing their faces and voices

Raw Story  

WASHINGTON — We’re in the midst of the first deepfake election in U.S. history, and, if Congress keeps up at its current pace, expect to be bombarded with disinformation guised as the nation’s politicians. Schumer and a bipartisan group of senators even hosted rare all-Senate briefings that tackled AI issues.. With sarcasm dripping from his voice, Sen. Josh Hawley told …

From cartoon lions to channelling dead dictators, here's how artificial intelligence is being used in elections around the world
1 year, 2 months ago

From cartoon lions to channelling dead dictators, here's how artificial intelligence is being used in elections around the world

ABC  

Divyendra Singh Jadoun, an artificial intelligence expert based Rajasthan in northern India, gets asked to do two kinds of jobs for political campaigns. And with easy-to-use AI tools that give users the ability to create and manipulate realistic looking fake images, video and audio, experts warn the world is likely to see a "tsunami of disinformation". New apps have 'democratised' …

Artificial Intelligence, Disinformation, and the 2024 Indonesian Elections
1 year, 3 months ago

Artificial Intelligence, Disinformation, and the 2024 Indonesian Elections

The Diplomat  

The 2024 Indonesian elections will take place at a technological watershed, with artificial intelligence and machine learning poised to play an influential role. There is clear evidence of Indonesians harnessing AI technology to craft engaging social media content on platforms like TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and X. Plus, with the clear evidence of buzzers or cybertroopers that have operated on social …

Poll shows most US adults think AI will add to election misinformation in 2024
1 year, 4 months ago

Poll shows most US adults think AI will add to election misinformation in 2024

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The warnings have grown louder and more urgent as 2024 approaches: The rapid advance of artificial intelligence tools threatens to amplify misinformation in next year’s presidential election at a scale never seen before. The poll found that nearly 6 in 10 adults think AI tools — which can micro-target political audiences, mass produce persuasive messages, and generate …

No elections safe from AI, deep fake photos, videos of politicians to become common, warns former Google top boss
1 year, 9 months ago

No elections safe from AI, deep fake photos, videos of politicians to become common, warns former Google top boss

Firstpost  

Google’s former CEO, Eric Schmidt, has warned that no democratic election can be free from AI’s interference, unless governments across the world, work actively to curb misinformation and deep fakes. Google’s former CEO, Eric Schmidt, has issued a warning that democratic elections are vulnerable to AI interference. Schmidt’s remarks come as ministers are preparing measures to safeguard future general elections …

AI presents political peril for 2024 with threat to mislead U.S. voters
1 year, 10 months ago

AI presents political peril for 2024 with threat to mislead U.S. voters

The Hindu  

Computer engineers and tech-inclined political scientists have warned for years that cheap, powerful artificial intelligence tools would soon allow anyone to create fake images, video and audio that was realistic enough to fool voters and perhaps sway an election. When you can do that on a large scale, and distribute it on social platforms, well, it’s going to have a …

AI presents political peril for 2024 with threat to mislead voters
1 year, 10 months ago

AI presents political peril for 2024 with threat to mislead voters

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Computer engineers and tech-inclined political scientists have warned for years that cheap, powerful artificial intelligence tools would soon allow anyone to create fake images, video and audio that was realistic enough to fool voters and perhaps sway an election. When you can do that on a large scale, and distribute it on social platforms, well, it’s going to …

AI presents political peril for 2024 with threat to mislead voters
1 year, 10 months ago

AI presents political peril for 2024 with threat to mislead voters

LA Times  

As the 2024 election approaches, experts are warning about the potential use of artificial intelligence to create synthetic media for the purposes of confusing voters or slandering a candidate. When you can do that on a large scale, and distribute it on social platforms, well, it’s going to have a major impact.” AI experts can quickly rattle off a number …

Stop AI deepfakes undermining elections by updating law, says watchdog
1 year, 10 months ago

Stop AI deepfakes undermining elections by updating law, says watchdog

The Telegraph  

British laws need to be modernised to guard against AI-generated ‘deepfakes’ subverting the democratic process, the elections watchdog has said. Louise Edwards, the Electoral Commission’s director of regulation and digital transformation, said current laws aimed at preventing political disinformation were “very old and really need to be updated”. Electoral law ‘fragmented’ and old Currently, under Section 106 of the Representation …

Countering deepfakes, the most serious AI threat
4 years, 4 months ago

Countering deepfakes, the most serious AI threat

The Hindu  

Disinformation and hoaxes have evolved from mere annoyance to high stake warfare for creating social discord, increasing polarisation, and in some cases, influencing an election outcome. Nation-state actors with geopolitical aspirations, ideological believers, violent extremists, and economically motivated enterprises can manipulate media narratives using deepfakes, with easy and unprecedented reach and scale. Deepfakes can cause short- and long-term social harm …

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