Laura Stepp: What are we supposed to do about this just as citizens watching a campaign, trying to make good decisions? She says tech companies are going to have to start stepping in. Look to see if there's a little tag in the corner that mentions it's AI generated or a screen at the very end of an ad that says this was created by AI. Stepp: If you think about what you can do as an individual, it's a mitzvah to get out the word that something is fake.
As the saying goes: a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on. As AI is increasing productivity across industries, it’s also raising concern about how to regulate its output and keep it from putting many of us out of work. And as the next campaign season approaches, another question comes into focus: what about its potential to quickly create and spread misinformation about political rivals?
Bloomberg’s Laura Davison and Emily Birnbaum raise the curtain on the little regulated and largely vexing ability to disseminate political hay and deepfakes via a chatbot.
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