AI is disinforming the public about the U.S. election

AI is disinforming the public about the election:

"Last month, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in an assessment that found that AI is helping “improve” rather than “revolutionize” influence operations from Russia and Iran aimed at the elections in November.
The risk of this foreign, AI-generated content depends on the ability of foreign operatives to overcome restrictions built into many AI tools, to develop their own sophisticated AI models, or to “strategically target and disseminate” AI-generated content, an ODNI official told reporters. “Foreign actors are behind in each of these three areas.”"
— Ted Barrett and Sean Lyngaas, Senate intelligence committee chairman concerned about AI-generated content and election interference, CNN, October 15, 2024

Previously

"Artificial intelligence is helping “improve” rather than “revolutionize” influence operations from Russia and Iran aimed at November’s US elections, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in an assessment released Monday.
“The (US intelligence community) considers AI a malign influence accelerant, not yet a revolutionary influence tool,” an ODNI official told reporters."
— Sean Lyngaas, US intel says AI is boosting, but not revolutionizing, foreign efforts to influence the 2024 elections, CNN, September 23, 2024

Please read: By Not Using Gen AI, Am I Burying My Head in the Sand? Yes — and it looks awesome down here. Tucker Lieberman, Sept 25, 2024

I have an "author" responding to a rejection by claiming 1.4 million followers and to have published with me under 6 different pseudonyms. Threatening a campaign of "thousands of negative reviews." The lies go on... and on... Naturally, his story is AI generated. His Amazon novel AI generated too.

— Clarkesworld (@clarkesworldmagazine.com) November 8, 2024 at 12:49 PM

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In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.

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— Dan Hassler-Forest (@danhf.bsky.social) December 18, 2024 at 8:25 AM