From Time
How to Protect Yourself from AI Election Misinformation
By Rebecca Schneid
As the 2024 race for President heats up, so too does concern over the spread of AI misinformation in elections.
“It’s an arms race,” says Andy Parsons, senior director of Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI). And it’s not a fair race: the use of artificial intelligence to spread misinformation is a struggle in which the “bad guys don't have to open source their data sets or present at conferences or prepare papers,” Parsons says...
“I don't think there's anything that 93% of the American public agrees on, but apparently this is one of them, and I think there's a good reason for that,” said Hany Farid, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and advisor to the CAI. “There are people on both sides creating fake content, people denying real content, and suddenly you go online like, ‘What? What do I make of anything?...’”
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
