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Purported Republican AI Ad Reportedly Depicts Dystopian Future After Biden Reelection Announcement

April 25, 2023

Joe Biden's 2024 reelection announcement was followed by a controversial Republican National Committee ad, reportedly featuring AI-generated images depicting a dystopian future. Despite a disclaimer, the fabricated scenes potentially disseminated false information and distorted the political landscape during an active electoral process. This underscores the significance of trustworthy AI and AI governance in preventing such incidents.

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Alleged deployer
republican-national-committee-(rnc)
Alleged developer
unknown-ai-image-generator-developer, unknown-deepfake-technology-developers
Alleged harmed parties
joe-biden, democratic-party, democracy, truth, electoral-integrity, epistemic-integrity, general-public, general-public-of-the-united-states

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/694

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

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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