Is there anything illegal about a candidate making another candidate appear to be doing something completely false? One use of AI that could be illegal, and we can remember this is still an untested area of the law in many ways. There are also laws cropping up in states across the country that ban certain kinds of quote unquote deep fakes.
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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