#AI#DeepFakes#Doppelgangers#VirtualAvatars#BigData: "In the ongoing, historic Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strike, a major point of contention is how AI and emerging technologies threaten these workers’ creative and intellectual rights. In particular, actors are raising concerns about “digital doubles” — the AI-powered ability to reproduce an actor’s likeness, voice, and appearance, which studios could presumably use (and profit from) in perpetuity, without the actor’s direct participation. Concerned actors are grappling with a question that strikes at the heart of their profession: What are the consequences of having a digital double when your persona is the foundation of your craft and career?"
The 2024 campaign cycle is expected to unleash a torrent of AI-generated “deepfake” videos and images capable of deceiving voters — but the early attempts in Washington to stem the problem have already hit political snags.
'Less than three weeks after the Federal Election Commission deadlocked on a request to develop regulations governing so-called deepfake political ads generated using artificial intelligence tools, a non-partisan advocacy group pushing for the new rules is trying again.'
#AI#GenerativeAI#Chatbots#Disinformation#Deepfakes#USA#Politics#Elections: "Voters in the US and around the world are already inundated by AI-generated political content. Click on an email asking for donations, for example, and you may be reading a message drafted by a so-called large language model, political consultants say — the technology behind ChatGPT, the wildly popular chatbot from startup OpenAI. Politicians also increasingly use AI to hasten mundane but critical tasks like analyzing voter rolls, assembling mailing lists and even writing speeches.
As in many industries, AI is poised to increase political workers’ productivity — and probably eliminate more than a few of their jobs. It’s hard to say how many, but the business of politics is full of the sorts of roles that researchers believe are most vulnerable to disruption by generative AI, such as legal professionals and administrative workers.
But even more ominously, AI holds the potential to supercharge the dissemination of misinformation in political campaigns. The technology is capable of quickly creating so-called “deepfakes,” fake pictures and videos that some political operatives predict will soon be indistinguishable from real ones, enabling miscreants to literally put words in their opponents’ mouths.
Deepfakes have plagued politics for years, but with AI, savvy editing skills are no longer required to create them."
Comment: abortion & erasure of transgender persons I predict will the key wedge strategies in Republican culture wars leading into the 2024 U.S. elections : noise, disinformation, & identity politics to (1) to divide the electorate, & (2) through information overload induce apathy & dissuade voters from participating / voting - allowing enough of their supporters to elect GOP candidates. ...
#AI#GenerativeAI#DeepFakes#Disinformation#Propaganda: "The deepfake future is scary, not just because of the deepfakes’ potential to generate convincing hoaxes, but because in a world of hoaxes, people’s trust in each other could collapse. If you get a phone call purporting to be from your child, claiming they are in an emergency, how do you know it’s not a scam? Will using video and audio evidence in court even be possible? What’s to stop someone like Trump from just claiming that any incriminating evidence is merely an elaborate AI-generated hoax? The worst tendencies of our already fearful and suspicious society could spiral out of control. We shouldn’t have to live that way. But to have a media and judicial system that is actually trusted, we have to have a media and judicial system that are worth trusting. We have a responsibility to preserve truth and ensure that illusion and fakery are exposed and discredited."
Young female TikTok stars are finding the price of fame on one platform is the rise of pornographic deepfakes of them on another. Despite Twitter's policies banning such content, its presence has skyrocketed in recent months.
#Deepfakes will and already are being used in the US 2024 election preparations. So it’s only natural that the companies offering these services suddenly warn of abuse and ask for regulations, knowing perfectly well that this won’t happen fast enough. But it gives them an excuse. Le Sigh.
@kurtseifried@joshbressers the answer to your latest #technopocalypse is an AI information body guard that you trust. Basically Google Desktop Search (remember that) or Siri with #AgentGPT behind the scenes actually doing what you ask it to do instead of faking it and sharing your data with the exact organizations that you're trying to protect yourself from.
Loved your latest podcast on exponential change and the inability of our #brains to keep up.
Perhaps fight fire with fire - an AI information bodyguard that you trust. Basically Siri with #AgentGPT actually doing what you ask it to do instead of faking it and sharing your data with predatory BigTech.
Daniel Miessler had some ideas but he's too techno optimist for me. #AIEthics #DeepFakes#Security#Identification #technopocalypse#LangChain#LlamaImdex @joshbressers
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AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype (www.scientificamerican.com)
Effective regulation of AI needs grounded science that investigates real harms, not glorified press releases about existential risks