Election Disinformation

[ad_1] Meta Platforms Inc. is under immense pressure to ensure that social media content created by artificial intelligence doesn't cause havoc with elections this year. The company's top leaders say they haven't seen that happen yet on their services.“So far, it's been very striking how little these tools have been used on a systemic basis to try to subvert or disrupt these elections,” Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs, said at an event on the company's AI strategy in London on Tuesday. There's still time for that to change. The rapid spread of AI tools capable of generating realistic images, videos or audio clips coincides with a key global election year, with about half the world's population headed to the polls in 2024. Experts fear that AI-generated content could misl...