Safety & RiskPartially correct
“Daily bad-actor AI activity will escalate by mid-2024 — with AI-manipulated content spreading across online communities on a near-daily basis — increasing the threat that it could affect election results in the more than 50 countries voting this year, including the U.S.”
Professor of physics, George Washington University; lead author, 'Controlling bad-actor-AI activity at scale across online battlefields' (PNAS Nexus)
Said Jan 23, 2024Deadline Jul 1, 2024PNAS Nexus study, announced by George Washington University, January 23, 2024
AI-generated and AI-manipulated content did become an essentially daily feature of online political discourse by mid-2024, matching the paper's directional forecast, but the accompanying threat to election results did not materialize: post-election reviews found deepfakes relatively scarce, non-AI 'cheap fakes' far more common, and no election outcome demonstrably changed.