The Federal Election Commission this month tried to vote on a measure that would have enabled them to create rules around AI-generated political ads. The FEC found themselves deadlocked, so there was a deep disagreement among the commissioners about if they even have the authority to do that. "It's going to really take a lot of discerning both from kind of the truth squatting faction on Twitter as well as from individual consumers to know if something's real or 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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