White House 2024: AI threatens to ‘supercharge’ disinformation

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The 2024 White House contest faces a firehose of tech-enabled misinformation, from false photographs of Donald Trump’s arrest to a film presenting a dismal future under Joe Biden, in what is generally characterised as America’s first AI election. Campaigners on all sides of the US political spectrum are using powerful artificial intelligence-powered technologies, which many tech experts see as a double-edged sword. AI programmes can instantly clone a political figure’s voice and generate films and text that appear so authentic that voters may fail to distinguish between fact and fiction, weakening faith in the democratic process. Simultaneously, campaigns are likely...