2024 Is the Year of the Generative AI Election
7 months, 1 week 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 received personalized AI-generated phone calls from local candidates in India’s elections. These are just some of the ways that generative AI is reshaping the world of politics, elections, and democracy–and it’s more available than ever. In our project, we tracked uses of AI that, in some cases, have reached millions of people: For example, TikToks featuring an AI-generated image that made Prabowo Subianto, Indonesia’s former defense minister and now president-elect, seem cute and cuddly were viewed more than 19 billion times.

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WIRED’s 2024 Year-in-Review Quiz: From AI Slop to Human Brain Implants
1 week, 2 days ago

WIRED’s 2024 Year-in-Review Quiz: From AI Slop to Human Brain Implants

Wired  

2024 was another year defined by generative AI, with software features put into the hands of millions of people worldwide and unavoidably built into popular services, like Google Search. While some AI tools, like ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode and Google’s NotebookLM, were delightful to interact with, the prevailing narrative remained on the technology’s inherent flaws, with rampant hallucinations and continued …

Year Ender 2024: Looking Back At The Top AI Stories This Year That'll Take Us Forward
1 week, 3 days ago

Year Ender 2024: Looking Back At The Top AI Stories This Year That'll Take Us Forward

ABP News  

Year Ender 2024: As we bid farewell to 2024, it’s impossible to ignore the groundbreaking advancements in artificial intelligence that have shaped this year. From generative AI tools revolutionising industries to cutting-edge research pushing the boundaries of machine learning, 2024 has been a pivotal year for technological progress. This year also saw AI becoming more accessible and integrated into everyday …

The Year of the AI Election Wasn’t Quite What Everyone Expected
1 week, 6 days ago

The Year of the AI Election Wasn’t Quite What Everyone Expected

Wired  

In the spring, the US saw what was likely its first AI candidate. At the outset of 2024, many suggested that even if not winning office, generative AI would play a pivotal role in—and pose significant risks to—democratic elections, as more than 2 billion people voted in more than 60 countries. “I think concern about misleading deepfakes was taking up …

Did AI Misinformation Impact Elections In 2024? A Look At US, Europe, UK, India Polls
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2 weeks ago

Did AI Misinformation Impact Elections In 2024? A Look At US, Europe, UK, India Polls

ABP News  

Fears of AI-generated misinformation ran rife ahead of this historic election year. "AI makes it easier to create these illustrations, but I don't see it as a game changer, and it won't sway voters," Dr. Sacha Altay, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Zurich's Digital Democracy Lab, told Logically Facts. European and U.K. elections saw little meaningful AI …

Did artificial intelligence shape the 2024 US election?
2 weeks, 1 day 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 …

Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Generative AI Still Needs to Prove Its Usefulness

Wired  

Generative AI took the world by storm in November 2022, with the release of OpenAI’s service ChatGPT. There is just one thing: Generative AI doesn’t actually work that well, and maybe it never will. Fundamentally, the engine of generative AI is fill-in-the-blanks, or what I like to call “autocomplete on steroids.” Such systems are great at predicting what might sound …

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

Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It's Not All Bad
1 month, 1 week ago

Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It's Not All Bad

Wired  

In 2025, AI is poised to change every aspect of democratic politics—but it won’t necessarily be for the worse. India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has used AI to translate his speeches for his multilingual electorate in real time, demonstrating how AI can help diverse democracies to be more inclusive. AI avatars were used by presidential candidates in South Korea in …

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

The Reason Your Election Anxiety Feels Worse in 2024
2 months, 1 week ago

The Reason Your Election Anxiety Feels Worse in 2024

Wired  

Americans need to log off. I don’t just mean the general sky-is-falling stuff—the militias on Facebook organizing ballot-box stakeouts, the conspiracy theory spreaders, the cybercriminals potentially waiting in the wings. Clearly US voters worry about how misinformation might impact who wins the election, but Sander van der Linden, author of Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build …

Tech Tonic | AI has wedged itself into elections, and there’s nothing we can do
4 months, 3 weeks 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 …

Big Tech Is Giving Campaigns Both the Venom and the Antidote for GenAI
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Big Tech Is Giving Campaigns Both the Venom and the Antidote for GenAI

Wired  

The Biden campaign is facing its first major cheapfake scandal this week. It’s exactly the type of content the right-wing media apparatus drools over to play up Biden’s age, despite the clips being edited in a manner reminiscent of the drunk Nancy Pelosi video from last cycle. And while we’re all starting to get stressed over simple editing and cropping …

AI experimentation is high risk, high reward for low-profile political campaigns
6 months, 3 weeks ago

AI experimentation is high risk, high reward for low-profile political campaigns

Associated Press  

Adrian Perkins was running for reelection as the mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, when he was surprised by a harsh campaign hit piece. National safeguards lacking Some local candidates already have faced criticism for deploying AI in misleading ways, from a Republican state senate candidate in Tennessee who used an AI headshot to make himself look slimmer and younger to Philadelphia’s …

AI could supercharge disinformation and disrupt EU elections, experts warn
7 months 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 …

The WIRED AI Elections Project
7 months, 1 week ago

The WIRED AI Elections Project

Wired  

In India and Indonesia, dead leaders are rising to throw their support behind their political successors; in South Africa, the rapper Eminem is endorsing opposition parties; and in the United States, President Joe Biden is telling voters in New Hampshire to stay home. But we’ve Experts know that generative AI is poised to drastically change the information landscape, but we’re …

Election 2024: Nervous about falling behind, Democrats wrestle with AI use
8 months ago

Election 2024: Nervous about falling behind, Democrats wrestle with AI use

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s campaign and Democratic candidates are in a fevered race with Republicans over who can best exploit the potential of artificial intelligence, a technology that could transform American elections — and perhaps threaten democracy itself. The Trump campaign said in a statement that it “uses a set of proprietary algorithmic tools, like many other campaigns across …

Will hackers, trolls and AI deepfakes upset the 2024 election?
8 months, 1 week ago

Will hackers, trolls and AI deepfakes upset the 2024 election?

LA Times  

More than 100 bills have been introduced in at least 39 states to limit and regulate AI-generated materials, according to the Voting Rights Lab, a nonpartisan organization that tracks election-related legislation. A recent threat analysis by Microsoft said a network of Chinese- One Chinese disinformation ploy, according to the Microsoft report, claimed that the U.S. government deliberately set the wildfires …

Here’s how ChatGPT maker OpenAI plans to deter election misinformation in 2024
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Here’s how ChatGPT maker OpenAI plans to deter election misinformation in 2024

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — ChatGPT maker OpenAI has outlined a plan to prevent its tools from being used to spread election misinformation as voters in more than 50 countries prepare to cast their ballots in national elections this year. The company, which announced the moves Monday, said it plans to “continue our platform safety work by elevating accurate voting information, enforcing …

What AI will bring in 2024: 4 predictions
1 year ago

What AI will bring in 2024: 4 predictions

LA Times  

One thing both skeptics and enthusiasts alike can agree on: Artificial intelligence will have a banner year in 2024. “In the next year, we may require AI systems to get a professional license,” said Amy Webb, chief executive of the Future Today Institute, a consulting firm. Bill Burton, former deputy press secretary for the Obama administration, predicted: “The most viewed …

What the coming age of AI natives portends
1 year ago

What the coming age of AI natives portends

Hindustan Times  

Every year, the average Indian spends around 2,300 hours on their smartphone. In 2023, Artificial Intelligence, and more specifically, Generative AI captured the imagination of the world across domains, ranging from creativity to health care. Generative AI promises a future where humans will have the ability to automate mundane tasks and generate text, images, or models on the go. Interactive …

Generative AI Learned Nothing From Web 2.0
1 year ago

Generative AI Learned Nothing From Web 2.0

Wired  

If 2022 was the year the generative AI boom started, 2023 was the year of the generative AI panic. The US Federal Elections Commission is looking into deceptive campaign ads, Congress is calling for oversight into how AI companies develop and label training data for their algorithms, and the European Union passed its new AI Act with last-minute tweaks to …

2023: The year we played with artificial intelligence — and weren’t sure what to do about it
1 year ago

2023: The year we played with artificial intelligence — and weren’t sure what to do about it

Associated Press  

Artificial intelligence went mainstream in 2023 — it was a long time coming yet has a long way to go for the technology to match people’s science fiction fantasies of human-like machines. “There’s massive claims by vendors and producers of generative AI around its capabilities, its ability to deliver those capabilities.” Google drew criticism this month for editing a video …

Here’s How Violent Extremists Are Exploiting Generative AI Tools
1 year, 1 month ago

Here’s How Violent Extremists Are Exploiting Generative AI Tools

Wired  

Extremist groups have begun to experiment with artificial intelligence, and in particular generative AI, in order to create a flood of new propaganda. Experts now fear the growing use of generative AI tools by these groups will overturn the work Big Tech has done in recent years to keep their content off the internet. “Our biggest concern is that if …

Poll shows most US adults think AI will add to election misinformation in 2024
1 year, 2 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 …

Deepfake democracy: How AI is bamboozling Congress and threatening Election 2024
1 year, 7 months ago

Deepfake democracy: How AI is bamboozling Congress and threatening Election 2024

Raw Story  

WASHINGTON — America’s in the midst of its first AI-fueled election. “I haven't heard it talked about here,” Sen. Josh Hawley told Raw Story when asked about deepfakes and AI impacting Election 2024. It’s not that the the Capitol isn’t buzzing with AI regulatory chatter since OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified before lawmakers last Tuesday — including telling Hawley that …

AI presents political peril for 2024 with threat to mislead U.S. voters
1 year, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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 …

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