https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/29/24085663/ai-deepfakes-misinformation-policy-free-speech-first-amendment-decoder-podcast
Generative AI might cause massive election misinformation problems. Here’s how.
cheap, easy, and coming for the 2024 election
How am I supposed to tell them apart from a real politician
Coming? Mon Ami they're already here, and I mean literally here, like on Lemmy, Hacker News, and Reddit, on top of all of the other common social media platforms.
Wait you mean that Biden and Trump weren't really holding hands and eating piles of spaghetti together?
Deepfake videos were WIDELY used in the latest Argentina presidential election. The most known video was one featuring the runner-up candidate snorting coke, yelling "oh this shit is gooood". He was called "coke-head" by Milei's party during the entire campaign.
It’s like a license to do and say dumb shit  with constant plausible deniability now. Fun times people back like it used to be.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Those are basically a coin flip — and the outcomes are off in the distance, as those cases wind their way through the legal system.
A bigger problem right now is that AI systems are really good at making just believable enough fake images and audio — and with tools like OpenAI’s new Sora, maybe video soon, too.
So today, Verge policy editor Adi Robertson joins the show to discuss how AI might supercharge misinformation and lies in an election that’s already as contentious as any in our lifetimes — and what might be done about it.
Those bursts of attention have receded, with little or nothing to show for it — and in the case of Twitter, a wholesale retreat from any moderation at all as Elon Musk turned the platform into what’s now X.
And X is where fake pornographic images of Taylor Swift have been most widely distributed — a preview of the problems facing every major platform.
But these problems aren’t going away, and it’s important to take stock of how AI companies, social media platforms, and policymakers are trying to deal with it and what we as individuals should keep in mind as the election cycle kicks into high gear.
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Robocalls are already illegal and yet they never stop blowing up my phone.
At some point, you actually have to enforce this shit. And, between the Pentagon budget and the NSA and the FBI and the State Police and the Municipal Police and the DEA and the CIA and the DHS and the TSA and the FCC... fuck, we just don't have the money in the budget to stop a phone bank in Manila operating on $2/hr wages from bombarding everyone's cell phones with automated spam 24/7/365.
You can do this on cheap consumer grade hardware without requiring particularly advanced programming or video editing skills. Even if you make the punishment extremely harsh the damage will already be done by the time you can prosecute and convict someone for abusing this technology to spread misinformation. The cat is definitely out of the bag at this point.