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OpenAI said in a statement that it estimates ChatGPT rejected more than 250,000 requests to generate images of 2024 U.S. presidential candidates before Election Day. blogging friday.
OpenAI said the rejected content included content involving President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance. Image generation request.
The rise of generative artificial intelligence has raised concerns that misinformation created using the technology could influence numerous elections taking place around the world in 2024.
Data from machine learning company Clarity shows that the number of deepfakes has increased by 900% year-on-year. Some of the videos were produced or paid for by Russians in an effort to disrupt the U.S. election, U.S. intelligence officials said.
on page 54 of October reportOpenAI says it has disrupted “more than 20 operational and deceptive networks from around the world trying to use our models.” Threats range from AI-generated website articles to social media posts from fake accounts, the company wrote. The report noted that all election-related actions failed to attract “viral engagement.”
OpenAI said in a blog post on Friday that it had not found any evidence that covert operations aimed at using the company’s products to influence the outcome of the U.S. election could successfully spread or build a “sustained audience.”
Lawmakers are particularly concerned about misinformation in the era of generative artificial intelligence, which began to take off in late 2022 with the launch of ChatGPT. Large language models are still new and often output inaccurate and unreliable information.
Alexandra Reeve Gives, CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology, told CNBC: “Voters should never turn to AI chatbots for information about voting or elections because of concerns about accuracy and There are too many concerns about integrity.” last week.
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