Though the 2024 Presidential Election is still over a whole year away, the media and candidates have started campaigning early and is being heavily proliferated across airways. With artificial intelligence and deepfakes on the rise, the mainstream media is now already warning how an AI-generated “disinformation” campaigns are going to be launched to mislead voters.
Reclaim The Net noted this in a tweet citing a recently published piece by the Associated Press, that this will indirectly lead to more censorship to the point where memes will get canceled.
The AP in their article warns of how this AI will be used to confuse voters and other internet users, and some of the potential tactics:
The implications for the 2024 campaigns and elections are as large as they are troubling: Generative AI can not only rapidly produce targeted campaign emails, texts or videos, it also could be used to mislead voters, impersonate candidates and undermine elections on a scale and at a speed not yet seen.
AI experts can quickly rattle off a number of alarming scenarios in which generative AI is used to create synthetic media for the purposes of confusing voters, slandering a candidate or even inciting violence.
Here are a few: Automated robocall messages, in a candidate’s voice, instructing voters to cast ballots on the wrong date; audio recordings of a candidate supposedly confessing to a crime or expressing racist views; video footage showing someone giving a speech or interview they never gave. Fake images designed to look like local news reports, falsely claiming a candidate dropped out of the race.
The AP notes that former President Trump, who is already campaigning for reelection, recently shared a doctored video clip of CNN’s Anderson Cooper that manipulated what he said using an AI voice-cloning tool.
In April the Republican National Committee (RNC) provided “another glimpse of this digitally manipulated future” that the AP called “a dystopian campaign,” featuring a slightly warped picture of Biden and the words, “what if the weakest president we’ve ever had was re-elected?”
‘A series of AI-generated images follows: Taiwan under attack; boarded up storefronts in the United States as the economy crumbles; soldiers and armored military vehicles patrolling local streets as tattooed criminals and waves of immigrants create panic,’ the AP wrote. “An AI-generated look into the country’s possible future if Joe Biden is re-elected in 2024,” reads the ad’s description from the RNC.
The AP went on to elaborate on some of the potential scenarios AI will probably be used in devious ways:
What happens if an international entity – a cybercriminal or a nation state – impersonates someone. What is the impact? Do we have any recourse? We’re going to see a lot more misinformation from international sources.
Petko Stoyanov, global chief technology officer at Forcepoint, a cybersecurity company based in Austin, Texas
AI-generated political disinformation already has gone viral online ahead of the 2024 election, from a doctored video of Biden appearing to give a speech attacking transgender people to AI-generated images of children supposedly learning satanism in libraries.
AI images appearing to show Trump’s mug shot also fooled some social media users even though the former president didn’t take one when he was booked and arraigned in a Manhattan criminal court for falsifying business records. Other AI-generated images showed Trump resisting arrest, though their creator was quick to acknowledge their origin.
Clarke said her greatest fear is that generative AI could be used before the 2024 election to create a video or audio that incites violence and turns Americans against each other.
It’s important that we keep up with the technology. We’ve got to set up some guardrails. People can be deceived, and it only takes a split second. People are busy with their lives and they don’t have the time to check every piece of information. AI being weaponized, in a political season, it could be extremely disruptive.
Rep. Yvette Clarke, (D-NY) told The Associated Press
Other forms of artificial intelligence have for years been a feature of political campaigning, using data and algorithms to automate tasks such as targeting voters on social media or tracking down donors. Campaign strategists and tech entrepreneurs hope the most recent innovations will offer some positives in 2024, too.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
This is what we call “predictive programming.” The media is telling us what’s going to happen and it’ll be the wild wild west with AI-disinfo campaigns, and all the potential ploys listed here WILL be used.
But, plot twist, the media and military operatives ALREADY have been doing this for God only knows how long. None of what we see and hear in the media or by our puppet politicians are real. It’s just scripted propaganda – just like trying to convince us that our vote even matters. I always chuckle when Trump supporters who believe the election was stolen want me to still vote next time. ‘They stole this last one, but don’t worry, if we vote even more this time then we can’t be denied!’
All this is is just an excuse to introduce more censorship this year and next.
[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
[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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i dont bother with (s)elections coz i got my King that i serve forever. That very year i turned sixteen and was able to vote my father forced me to vote and i told many times “i dont care and dont wanna. its all stupid and fake.” and to think i said that lost as a devil and well that was the first and last time. Now i wake up every morning that the Lord gives me and i chose him.
He is the KING OF ALL KINGS over the earth and he is also LORD OF ALL LORDS over the earth.
1 Timothy 6:15
Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
Revelation 19:16
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.