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Sam Altman-led OpenAI seeks to allay election meddling fears in blog post; know how it will do so
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Sam Altman-led OpenAI seeks to allay election meddling fears in blog post; know how it will do so

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence lab OpenAI published a blog post Monday seeking to address fears that its technology will meddle with elections, as more than a third of the globe prepares to head to the polls this year. The use of AI to interfere with election integrity has been a concern since the Microsoft-backed company released two products: ChatGPT, which can mimic human writing convincingly, and DALL-E, whose technology can be used to create "deepfakes," or realistic-looking images that are fabricated. Those worried include OpenAI's own CEO Sam Altman, who testified in Congress in May that he was "nervous" about generative AI's ability to compromise election integrity through "one-on-one interactive disinformation."The San Francisco-based company said that in the United States, whi...
Alphabet to limit election queries Bard and AI-based search can answer
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Alphabet to limit election queries Bard and AI-based search can answer

[ad_1] Alphabet's Google said on Tuesday it will restrict the types of election-related queries its chatbot Bard and search generative experience can return responses for, in the run up to 2024 U.S. Presidential election. The restrictions are set to be enforced by early 2024, the company said. Aside from the U.S., a slew of groundbreaking elections are expected in 2024, including national elections in India, the world's largest democracy, and South Africa, among others. The tech giant said it will "work with an increased focus on the role artificial intelligence (AI) might play" as it looks to service voters and campaigns related to these elections. Facebook-owner Meta had also said in November it is barring political campaigns and advertisers in other regulated industries from using ...