What is the impact? Do we have any recourse?” Stoyanov said. “What happens if an international entity - a cybercriminal or a nation state - impersonates someone. democracy will employ AI and synthetic media as a way to erode trust.
Stoyanov predicted that groups looking to meddle with U.S. The RNC acknowledged its use of AI, but others, including nefarious political campaigns and foreign adversaries, will not, said Petko Stoyanov, global chief technology officer at Forcepoint, a cybersecurity company based in Austin, Texas. “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 online ad, which came after President Biden announced his reelection campaign, and starts with a strange, slightly warped image of Biden and the text “What if the weakest president we’ve ever had was re-elected?”Ī 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. A manipulated video of CNN host Anderson Cooper that Trump shared on his Truth Social platform on Friday, which distorted Cooper’s reaction to the CNN town hall this past week with Trump, was created using an AI voice-cloning tool.Ī dystopian campaign ad released last month by the Republican National Committee offers another glimpse of this digitally manipulated future.
But it’s not him.”įormer President Trump, who is running in 2024, has shared AI-generated content with his followers on social media. “What if Elon Musk personally calls you and tells you to vote for a certain candidate?” said Oren Etzioni, the founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI, who stepped down last year to start the nonprofit AI2. Fake images designed to look like local news reports, falsely claiming a candidate dropped out of the race. 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. 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.
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