A little over a year ago The WinePress highlighted that mainstream media had already begun to lay the groundwork for an alleged wave of artificial intelligence (AI) generated mis- and disinformation regarding the 2024 U.S. elections, making the case that AI propaganda would cause all kinds of problems and deception for people looking to vote.
Now the mainstream media is renewing these fears of AI-curated deception, propaganda, and mudslinging. The Associated Press discussed this again in a recent report. Here are some of the salient points from that piece:
Artificial intelligence is supercharging the threat of election disinformation worldwide, making it easy for anyone with a smartphone and a devious imagination to create fake – but convincing – content aimed at fooling voters.
It marks a quantum leap from a few years ago, when creating phony photos, videos or audio clips required teams of people with time, technical skill and money. Now, using free and low-cost generative artificial intelligence services from companies like Google and OpenAI, anyone can create high-quality “deepfakes” with just a simple text prompt.
A wave of AI deepfakes tied to elections in Europe and Asia has coursed through social media for months, serving as a warning for more than 50 countries heading to the polls this year.
“You don’t need to look far to see some people … being clearly confused as to whether something is real or not,” said Henry Ajder, a leading expert in generative AI based in Cambridge, England.
The question is no longer whether AI deepfakes could affect elections, but how influential they will be, said Ajder, who runs a consulting firm called Latent Space Advisory.
As the U.S. presidential race heats up, FBI Director Christopher Wray recently warned about the growing threat, saying generative AI makes it easy for “foreign adversaries to engage in malign influence.”
With AI deepfakes, a candidate’s image can be smeared, or softened. Voters can be steered toward or away from candidates — or even to avoid the polls altogether. But perhaps the greatest threat to democracy, experts say, is that a surge of AI deepfakes could erode the public’s trust in what they see and hear.
Some recent examples of AI deepfakes include:
- A video of Moldova’s pro-Western president throwing her support behind a political party friendly to Russia.
- Audio clips of Slovakia’s liberal party leader discussing vote rigging and raising the price of beer.
- A video of an opposition lawmaker in Bangladesh — a conservative Muslim majority nation — wearing a bikini.
The novelty and sophistication of the technology makes it hard to track who is behind AI deepfakes. Experts say governments and companies are not yet capable of stopping the deluge, nor are they moving fast enough to solve the problem.
As the technology improves, “definitive answers about a lot of the fake content are going to be hard to come by,” Ajder said.
[…] As the types of AI deepfakes multiply, authorities around the world are scrambling to come up with guardrails. […] Well-meaning governments or companies might trample on the sometimes “very thin” line between political commentary and an “illegitimate attempt to smear a candidate,” said Tim Harper, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington. […] Even without bad intentions, the rising use of AI is problematic. Many popular AI-powered chatbots are still spitting out false and misleading information that threatens to disenfranchise voters. And software isn’t the only threat. Candidates could try to deceive voters by claiming that real events portraying them in an unfavorable light were manufactured by AI.AUTHOR COMMENTARY
“Well-meaning?” What a nice way of polishing a turd and whitewashing the nonsense, and justifying why yours and my speech will continually get suppressed and censored.
[27] An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. [28] A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. [29] A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good. [30] He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass. Proverbs 16:27-30
The irony of this is the Associated Press has been using artificial intelligence to help write and curate their content for roughly a decade at this point, and so now we have the propaganda ministry telling who uses AI that AI is going to trick and beguile people! Sounds like the pot is calling the kettle black.
I mention this report because the media always tells you what the plan will before it is enacted. Many of these esoteric secret societies and occultists believe in “natural law:” they have tell you what something is going to happen before it occurs; or, as the scripture says, 1 Corinthians 3:19: “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.”
Not surprising to us at all, but all this means is more censorship will be allowed to ushered in by these “well-meaning” entities under the pretext it’s to stop AI disinformation, which we know is just a ploy.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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