Misinformation in the 2024 election will be rampant due to accessible AI tools, says Eric Schmidt. Social media’s failure to protect against false AI-generated content and the reduction of trust and safety groups are concerns. Schmidt suggests marking content and holding users accountable for law violations.
they haven’t solved it yet
Google hasn’t solved it yet either. You’ve probably all experienced the deluge of AI generated garbage with almost zero pertinent information clogging up search queries. And those aren’t even politically motivated. It’s getting harder and harder to even find actual information from actual humans.
Why is it expected that social media companies will find a solution for this? Political discussions are part of the democratic process so why would any of the big social networks (who are effectively advertising companies) have an incentive to foster the fair and open exchange of ideas and information?
The only thing deep learning has done is make forgery more accessible. But Stalin was airbrushing unpersons out of photos sixty years ago, so in principle this is nothing new.
When it comes to politics, there’s already enough money floating around that you don’t need deep learning to clog the internet with shit. So personally I’m not expecting anything different.
I’m expecting the exact same thing as every year, shitty candidates spewing lies and fake promises at each other until the voters get to choose between the two options that corporate America has decided we can vote on.
The volume of humanesque text that can be produced by AI is orders of magnitude greater. It will be diffrent this time and it will be really annoying.
I understand that, but the amount of money that gets fed into political campaigns already generates staggering amounts of spurious text. It’s hard to remember what happened the day before yesterday, but “fake news” originally meant sites that were set up to vaguely look like news sites, all for the purpose of pushing one or two entirely made-up propaganda pieces. Yes, deep learning can partly automate this, but automation isn’t necessary in this case.
There comes a point of diminishing returns with spurious text, and I feel like we’re already past that point.
Former CEO at Online Manipulation warns us about online manipulation. Hm.
