Political campaigns are increasingly deploying AI and deepfakes to further their messaging, and the scale of spread has experts concerned
From the comfort of his bed, Jonathan Rinaldi, a political candidate for a city council seat in Queens, New York, tinkered away on his iPhone, prompting an artificial intelligence chatbot to mock up fake news hits and endorsements he had never received.
During the campaign last October, Rinaldi shared one of those stories, made to appear real with a CNN logo, on his Facebook and Instagram. It stated that Lynn Schulman, his opponent and an incumbent Democrat, had been “forced to drop out of the race due to a series of critical mistakes”. But Schulman had not quit her campaign, and in November, won by a landslide.
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Effective July 1, Illinois expanded its definition of cyber bullying to include AI-generated deepfakes, forcing districts across the state to update their policies and procedures concerning uses for AI.
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Young man sits on sofa using smartphone. If a hacker takes over your social media, like Facebook, the first step to regain account access is to determine if you still have access to the account. Getty Facebook hacking — the takeover of your account by a criminal — can happen to anybody. The rise of AI scams is also making it easier for hackers to impersonate through AI voice cloning, and other techniques. When hackers get hold of your login details and personal information, they can use it to hijack your account and lock you out. They can then carry out activities including scamming you or your friends, blackmail and fraud or even exploiting passwords you’ve reused elsewhere to access other sites you use and steal your cash. Here’s what to do if you suspect that your Facebook account has been hacked. Did Your Facebook Get Hacked? There are a number of signs that your Facebook has been h
Researchers say small changes in drafting could spread rapidly and create long-term shifts in public opinion
AI tools are twisting online messages on sensitive political topics about everything from abortion to climate change in ways that could snowball to reshape long-term public opinion, experts have said.
As tech companies push AI tools as convenient ways to redraft and summarise the massive influx of daily messages, many inject their own political biases – some leaning distinctly rightwing, others more liberal, according to a study from Oxford and Potsdam universities.
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The nature of security threats is changing. AI hasn’t just driven up energy prices and consumer electronics costs, it’s also ushering in a new era of AI-augmented cyberattacks, one where the time between a flaw being discovered and being exploited is shrinking fast.
Apple is already signaling that it sees this coming.
Why Apple moved first
The company has begun accelerating the release of security updates specifically to counter AI-assisted hacking. This week’s patch was pushed out ahead of Apple’s usual schedule, and the company told Reuters it’s adapting to a reality in which artificial intelligence can speed up the development of malicious tools.
The logic is simple. If an AI system can find a flaw for one user, it can identify vulnerabilities for other users; that’s a benefit for well-resourced attackers prepared to move fast once a vulnerability becomes public. Hackers are, after all, one group in tech that really doesn’t worry much about moving fast and breaking things.
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OpenAI's support for the DEFIANCE Act signals a shift towards increased accountability and legal frameworks in the AI industry.
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California first lady’s Miss Representation: Rise Up studies the backlash against women in the era of algorithms and deepfakes
Life moves pretty fast. It is Monday lunchtime when Jennifer Siebel Newsom drops into the Guardian’s office in Washington, just a couple of blocks from the White House, for an interview to promote her new film. Less than two hours later her husband, the California governor, Gavin Newsom, announces that the couple are under investigation by the justice department.
One strand of the investigation specifically targets Siebel Newsom’s taxes and the California Partners Project, a gender equity non-profit she co-founded that received $4.3m in donations solicited by her husband. Gavin Newsom denounced the move as a “personal vendetta” directed by Donald Trump because the governor is considering running for US president.
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