AI-generated misinformation deemed greatest threat in 2024 election year

[KARAH RUCKER]

IF YOU’RE SEEING THIS VIDEO –

THEN YOU’RE WATCHING ME FROM SOME SORT OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONNECTED TO THE INTERWEBS.

IT’S A WONDERFUL PLACE TO BE.

ANYONE – ANYWHERE – CAN UPLOAD CONTENT AND CONNECT WITH MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.

WHICH – ALSO MAKES IT A SCARY PLACE TO BE IN 2024.

YOU ARE SUSCEPTIBLE HERE TO “DEEP FAKES”.

THINGS THAT LOOK REAL – BUT ARE MANUFACTURED.

AND WITH THE HELP OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – DEEP FAKES LOOK MORE REAL THAN EVER.

YOU ALREADY KNOW THIS.

WE’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE “THREATS OF AI” FOR MORE THAN A YEAR.

BUT NOW, ENTER OUR FIRST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SINCE A-I BECAME WIDELY AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

IT’S SOMETHING GOP FRONTRUNNER DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN A VICTIM OF BEFORE.

AND THE FORMER PRESIDENT RAN INTO ANOTHER RECENT DEEP-FAKE SCANDAL WITH THE RELEASE OF EPSTEIN FILES THIS WEEK.

THE PUBLIC WAS HIGHLY ANTICIPATING WHO WOULD BE NAMED IN THE FILES AND TIED TO CONVICTED SEX-TRAFFICKER JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

THE ANTICIPATION GAVE BAD ACTORS AN OPPORTUNITY.

AI WAS USED TO MANIPULATE COPIES OF THE DOCUMENTS, PUTTING NAMES ON THE LIST THAT WERE NEVER THERE.

AND PHOTOS SURFACED – IMPLEMENTING PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE, EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE FAKE.

THAT INCLUDES A FEW PHOTOS OF TRUMP.

WHILE HE WAS NAME DROPPED IN THE DOCS, BUT NOT ACCUSED OF ANY WRONGDOING, PHOTOS SURFACED ONLINE THAT APPEARED TO PLACE TRUMP ON EPSTEIN’S PLANE –

SURROUNDED BY YOUNG GIRLS.

THESE ARE THE PHOTOS.

AGAIN – THESE WERE FOUND TO BE MANIPULATED AND CONSTRUCTED WITH AI.

THEY WERE SHARED TO SOCIAL MEDIA, WHERE THEY CAN STILL BE FOUND ON X.

THIS POST – VIEWED THREE MILLION TIMES AND COUNTING, SHARED – BY ACTOR MARK RUFFALO WHO HAS 8 MILLION FOLLOWERS, AND WHO LATER APOLOGIZED AFTER TWITTER USERS FLAGGED THE POST AS “AI GENERATED”.

THIS IS JUST THE MOST RECENT EXAMPLE.

AI GENERATED CONTENT GENERATING MISTRUST AND DECEIVING THE PUBLIC.

IT’S A CONCERN SHARED BY TWO PEOPLE WITH NOT MUCH COMMON GROUND.

BOTH BIDEN AND TRUMP

HAVE CALLED FOR SOME SORT OF AI CONTROLS.

TRUMP SHARED NEWS OF MARK RUFFALO’S MISTAKE, SAYING “A.I. IS VERY DANGEROUS FOR OUR COUNTRY.”

“STRONG LAWS OUGHT TO BE DEVELOPED AGAINST A.I. IT WILL BE A BIG AND VERY DANGEROUS PROBLEM IN THE FUTURE!”

A SIMILAR SENTIMENT TO WHAT BIDEN HAS PREVIOUSLY SAID.

[JOE BIDEN]

“We face a genuine inflection point in history, one of those moments where the decisions we make in the very near term — are going to set the course for the next decades. With the position we lead the world — the toughest challenges and greatest opportunities — there’s no greater challenge that I can think in my life than what AI presents.”

[KARAH RUCKER]

RIGHT NOW – THE WORLD IS IN AGREEMENT.

“FALSE AND MISLEADING INFORMATION” EXACERBATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS THE “TOP IMMEDIATE RISK TO THE WORLD” – 

ACCORDING TO A NEW DAVOS REPORT OUT TODAY.

AND IN THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE –

ELECTION AFTER ELECTION AROUND THE GLOBE.