"Could AI sway the 2024 election?"

[computerwiz]

4 hours ago, Katty said:

personally predicting either Gavin Newsom or Michelle Obama

 

Michelle already refused.  Either Gavin or Kamala.  Most likely Kamala.

 

https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7057/Who-will-win-the-2024-Democratic-presidential-nomination

[Parale]

A Bugatti car, a first lady and the fake stories aimed at Americans

A network of Russia-based websites masquerading as local American newspapers is pumping out fake stories as part of an AI-powered operation that is increasingly targeting the US election, a BBC investigation can reveal.

A former Florida police officer who relocated to Moscow is one of the key figures behind it.

The operation investigated by BBC Verify uses artificial intelligence to generate thousands of news articles, posted to dozens of sites with names meant to sound quintessentially American – Houston Post, Chicago Crier, Boston Times, DC Weekly and others. Some use the names of real newspapers that went out of business years or decades ago.

Most of the stories on these sites are not outright fakes. Instead, they are based on real news stories from other sites apparently rewritten by artificial intelligence software.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c72ver6172do

[Katty]

On 7/8/2024 at 2:20 PM, computerwiz said:

 

Michelle already refused.  Either Gavin or Kamala.  Most likely Kamala.

 

https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7057/Who-will-win-the-2024-Democratic-presidential-nomination

That would be hilarious to watch if it was Kamala. she gives fascinating speeches. 
 

Edited July 10 by Katty

[Parale]

Thought this was an interesting article in the Washington Post in view of this thread....

 

 

See why AI detection tools can fail to catch election deepfakes

 

15 August 2024, The Washington Post

 

Artificial intelligence-created content is flooding the web and making it less clear than ever what’s real this election.

 

Deepfake detectors have been marketed as a silver bullet for identifying AI fakes, or “deepfakes.”

 

But the science of detecting manipulated content is in its early stages.

 

Meanwhile, deepfakes and manipulated video are proliferating. How can you know for sure?

 

The Washington Post talked with AI experts, computer scientists and representatives from deepfake detection companies to find out how the technology works — and where it falls short. Here are several key techniques deepfake detectors use to analyze content....

 

https://wapo.st/3WMwGzp