Top AI expert ‘completely terrified’ of 2024 election, shaping up to be ‘tsunami of misinformation’::“I can’t prove that," says Oren Etzioni, professor emeritus at the University of Washington. “I hope to be proven wrong. But the ingredients are there.”
If anything it’s highlighting problems that already existed like the rollback of the Fairness Doctrine. If it was still in effect you would have more legal ground to stand on. Now they can lie, shrug and say ‘we’re just entertainers’ and they do it from Maddow to Carlson
The word they’re looking for is “shitnami”.
Had this in Argentina last year and I could bet even the “debate” was highly AI scripted
Edit, funny thing, it was not cheap… they estimate 15 kM US$
What wasn’t cheap? The election…?
Massa’s campaign was paid with money from the state. Here, during elections, the state pays part of the campaign of every party, but they went way above that number with the candidate of the ruling party
15 thousand million million?
= 15 quadrillion USD?
15 billions, sorry… I got horribly lost in translation… in spanish billions is millions of millions and plural nouns in acronyms are marked with double letters. Like EEUU its Estados Unidos (united states).
No wonder they have inflation problems.
Once you start dividing by zero, your limit is the stars ✨️
I believe this wholeheartedly. I work for an mcsp, and we have a client who runs a chain of “news” sites. They are buying a bunch of AI server equipment for their racks and we are almost 100% certain its to pump out garbage for the election.
This was going to be true, AI or not. There’s no reason for them NOT to try to dupe you into voting for them… or at least against the other person. That’s been the way it’s been since the beginning. It’s definitely been ramping up the last 30-60 years, and tech will 100% be leveraged to those ends where it can be because they’d be dumb not to. They want to be in office. Whatever gaslighting they can do, they’ll do.
Without some sort of monitoring or accountability it’s just going to get worse. But even if they had fines for misinformation, they’ll just do some math to find out if the fine is worth it. If they put out an ad that says something about the other side that drives voters to them and they get caught, the voters likely won’t see a retraction. Their views likely won’t change back, so the fine doesn’t do anything but increase the cost of the ad and may still be worth it.
