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The Biden Deep Fake Robocall Is Only the Beginning: Tech Leaders Gather to Discuss Artificial Intelligence Measures and Rule Enforcement
Lawmakers are worried about the potential of generative AI to displacement jobs and spread misinformation after a year of its existence. The fears have been heightened by the fakerobocall mimicking Biden, which highlighted the regulatory gaps around transparency and accountability.
Several tech companies made voluntary commitments in July 2023 to watermark video and photos that had been manipulated by artificial intelligence so that regular consumers could differentiate it from organic content. In October, the Biden administration issued an executive order for companies developing artificial intelligence. Chuck Schumer, majority leader of the Senate, has organized a number of forums on Artificial Intelligence, inviting tech leaders such as Mark Zuckerberg to meet with lawmakers and discuss regulation.
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What will you do next year when you decide your vote? A group of online voter-deniers (WIRED) gathered to discuss fake allegations of election fraud in New Hampshire
The call said that they know the value of voting Democratic. You have to save your vote for the November election. We’ll need your help electing Democrats up and down the ticket. Voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect Donald Trump again. Your vote makes a difference in November, not this Tuesday.” The Democratic Party changed its primary this year from New Hampshire to South Carolina and so Vice President Biden is not on the ballot. There is a state-level campaign to get voters to write in his name.
Robert Weissman said that there is a political deepfake moment. Policymakers must hurry or the country will be in electoral chaos. The New Hampshire deepfake is a reminder of the many ways that deepfakes can sow confusion and perpetuate fraud.”
Images of a possible attack on the Pentagon went viral on social media in May. The stock market was affected by the fake images. As news of the conflict between Israel and Hamas flooded social platforms after October 7, fake images and videos of dead children and destroyed homes caused real outrage as experts and journalists scrambled to verify their authenticity.
WIRED followed the activities of a group of online election-deniers on Tuesday as voters in New Hampshire went to the polls.
One member wrote about how corrupt it was after someone heard the voting machines weren’t working. ”Always cheating,” another added.
Throughout the day, in dozens of posts and hundreds of comments, the group’s members posted messages of support for each other’s efforts, reaffirming each other’s beliefs in the conspiracies despite no actual evidence of fraud.
There are over 6,500 members in the group, and they were all encouraged by the group’s founder to complete seven tasks throughout the day to ensure election security, including demanding information from poll workers, logging any discrepancies they come across, and monitoring whether everyone was being asked to provide ID when checking in to polling sites.
On Tuesday, the group was able to see for the first time what it would be like in November when the election takes place.
Marylyn Todd founded the New Hampshire Voter Integrity group in February 2021, just a few months after Trump and the Republicans started pushing false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
Despite multiple government agencies saying it was the safest and most secure election in US history, Todd and the administrators of the group still push baseless conspiracy theories. She has shared her opinions on several right-wing shows.
While the group claims to be an election integrity group, the vast majority of those posting and commenting during the primary were rejoicing in Trump’s win over Haley, and they had in the hours before the results were announced flagged concerns about what they saw as potential.
There was a lot of controversy on Tuesday when it was revealed that not all the ballots in the state were the same, and that Trump wasn’t listed in the same place on every one.
There was a lot of confusion about why this happened, but the reason, as the New Hampshire secretary of state’s office lays out on its website, is that each county picks a number out of a hat to decide which candidate is listed first, and the rest of the candidates follow in alphabetical order after that.
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Despite several group members explaining this to people in the comments, many others quickly jumped to the conclusion that this was some form of “corruption”—again without any evidence.
