Posted on 05/14/2023 11:31:37 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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. […]
Sophisticated generative AI tools can now create cloned human voices and hyper-realistic images, videos and audio in seconds, at minimal cost. When strapped to powerful social media algorithms, this fake and digitally created content can spread far and fast and target highly specific audiences, potentially taking campaign dirty tricks to a new low.
The implications for the 2024 campaigns and elections are as large as they are troubling: Generative AI can not only rapidly produce targeted campaign emails, texts or videos; it also could be used to mislead voters, impersonate candidates and undermine elections on a scale and at a speed not yet seen. […]
Former President Donald Trump, who is running in 2024, has shared AI-generated content with his followers on social media. A manipulated video of CNN host Anderson Cooper that Trump shared on his Truth Social platform on Friday, which distorted Cooper’s reaction to the CNN town hall this past week with Trump, was created using an AI voice-cloning tool.
A dystopian campaign ad released last month by the Republican National Committee offers another glimpse of this digitally manipulated future. The online ad, which came after President Joe Biden announced his reelection campaign, and starts with a strange, slightly warped image of Biden and the text “What if the weakest president we’ve ever had was re-elected?” …
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We don’t need AI to mislead voters; mainstream media + Fox News is quite capable of doing just that.
We had a fellow here at Free Republic that created a fake image with John Kerry and Jane Fonda. Of course the Left targeted him for destruction. It’s too bad because he was very creative and funny.
Here’s the actual ad they’re whining about.
https://youtu.be/kLMMxgtxQ1Y
Wake me when tictok is taken down here in amerika.
APdiesnt want the competition
OH,OH, this is good.
Ask AI which districts, and by how many votes, are needed to overthrow an otherwise honest election.
Maybe throw in mail in ballots, and ballot harvesting.
The dem plan will be described, exactly.
Check out the authors’ LinkedIn pages.
They make really interesting reading.
Ah, so dems coming up with the next thing to criminalize voting against them.
The truth is, Democrats and Independents are indeed persuaded by social media, and so we can't have any of that, can we.
amen
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