Manipulated Media via AI Disinformation and Deepfakes in 2024 Elections Erode Trust Across More Than 50 Countries
March 14, 2024
AI-driven election disinformation is escalating globally, leveraging easy-to-use generative AI tools to create convincing deepfakes that mislead voters. This shift has simplified the process for individuals to generate fake content, having already eroded trust in elections by undermining public trust and manipulating voter perceptions. Evidence has, for example, been documented in incidents across the U.S., Moldova, Slovakia, Bangladesh, and Taiwan.
- Alleged deployer
- russian-government, political-operatives, political-consultants, chinese-communist-party
- Alleged developer
- unknown-deepfake-creators, openai, google
- Alleged harmed parties
- voters, public-trust, political-figures, general-public, electoral-integrity, democracy, civic-society
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/674
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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