Tech companies sign accord to combat AI-generated election trickery

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Tech companies sign accord to combat AI-generated election trickery​

FILE - Meta’s president of global affairs Nick Clegg


February 16, 2024
Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt “reasonable precautions” to prevent artificial intelligence tools from being used to disrupt democratic elections around the world.
Tech executives from Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and TikTok gathered at the Munich Security Conference to announce a new voluntary framework for how they will respond to AI-generated deepfakes that deliberately trick voters. Twelve other companies — including Elon Musk’s X — are also signing on to the accord.
“Everybody recognizes that no one tech company, no one government, no one civil society organization is able to deal with the advent of this technology and its possible nefarious use on their own,” said Nick Clegg, president of global affairs for Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, in an interview ahead of the summit.

The accord is largely symbolic, but targets increasingly realistic AI-generated images, audio and video “that deceptively fake or alter the appearance, voice, or actions of political candidates, election officials, and other key stakeholders in a democratic election, or that provide false information to voters about when, where, and how they can lawfully vote.”


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Tech companies sign accord to combat AI-generated election trickery

Major tech companies signed a pact to adopt “reasonable precautions” to prevent AI tools from being used to disrupt democratic elections worldwide.

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[CarltonJunior]

The government letting AI technology run loose in general unimpeded is some dystopian shyt

Damn near everyone is trying to tell them to step in and they are doing the bare minimum. This election is just the surface of what AI could and likely will impact in this country.

 

[aXiom]

They’re going to “combat” it.

 

[Remote]

Some people are already warning social media users that some political news outlets might be shadow banned in the coming months.

Maybe shadow banned isn't the right word. But there's a fear that algorithms may push important news accounts out of a user's feed, or make it difficult to find...effectively functioning as a sort of...."soft censorship"

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

They ain’t stopping shyt. Spend more than 20 seconds on twitter and you see the bots running rampant. Pandora’s box is out. Best thing people can do is disconnect.

 

[Hater Eraser]

 

[Xyrax]

If Elon is signing it for Twitter, then you know its toothless.