{"id":167073,"date":"2023-07-07T10:26:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T15:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/ai-generated-election-content-is-here-and-the-social-networks-arent-prepared"},"modified":"2023-07-07T10:26:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T15:26:20","slug":"ai-generated-election-content-is-here-and-the-social-networks-arent-prepared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/ai-generated-election-content-is-here-and-the-social-networks-arent-prepared","title":{"rendered":"AI-Generated Election Content Is Here, And The Social Networks Aren\u2019t Prepared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-generated-election-content-is-here-and-the-social-networks-arent-prepared.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, on the eve of Chicago\u2019s mayoral election, a video of moderate Democrat candidate Paul Vallas appeared online. Tweeted by \u201cChicago Lakefront News,\u201d it appeared to showcase Vallas railing against lawlessness in Chicago and suggesting that there was a time when \u201cno one would bat an eye\u201d at fatal police shootings.<\/p>\n<p>The video, which appeared authentic, was widely shared before<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulvallas2023.com\/post\/vallas-campaign-denounces-fake-deceptive-impersonation-video\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.paulvallas2023.com\/post\/vallas-campaign-denounces-fake-deceptive-impersonation-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"the Vallas campaign denounced it as an AI-generated fake\"> the Vallas campaign denounced it as an AI-generated fake<\/a> and the two-day old Twitter account that posted it disappeared. And while it\u2019s impossible to say if it had any impact on Vallas\u2019s loss against progressive Brandon Johnson, a former teacher and union organizer, it is a lower stakes glimpse at the high stakes AI deceptions that will potentially muddy the public discourse during the upcoming presidential election. And it raises a key question: How will platforms like Facebook and Twitter mitigate them?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a daunting challenge. With no actual laws to regulate how AI can be used in political campaigns, it is on the platforms to determine what deep fakes users will see on their feeds, and right now, most are struggling to address how to self-regulate. \u201cThese are threats to our very democracies,\u201d Hany Farid, an electrical engineering and computer science professor at UC Berkeley, told <em>Forbes<\/em>. \u201cI don\u2019t see the platforms taking this seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, on the eve of Chicago\u2019s mayoral election, a video of moderate Democrat candidate Paul Vallas appeared online. Tweeted by \u201cChicago Lakefront News,\u201d it appeared to showcase Vallas railing against lawlessness in Chicago and suggesting that there was a time when \u201cno one would bat an eye\u201d at fatal police shootings. The video, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}