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Deepfakes Become Politics as Usual: Deepfakes dominate as India’s election season unfolds.
Synthetic depictions of politicians are taking center stage as the world’s biggest democratic election kicks off.
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Sovereign AI: Governments invest billions to secure homegrown AI technologies.
Governments want access to AI chips and software built in their own countries, and they are shelling out billions of dollars to make it happen. Nations across the world are supporting homegrown AI processing and development, The Economist reported.
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The Politics of Generative AI: AI-generated imagery flooded Argentina's presidential race.
Argentina’s recent presidential race was a battleground of AI-generated imagery. Candidates Javier Milei and Sergio Massa flooded social media with generated images of themselves and each other, The New York Times reported. On Sunday, Milei won the election’s final round.
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Truth in Online Political Ads: Google tightens restrictions on AI-made political ads.
Google, which distributes a large portion of ads on the web, tightened its restrictions on potentially misleading political ads in advance of national elections in the United States, India, and South Africa.
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Washington Gears Up to Regulate: The plan to educate the U.S. Senate on AI
United States lawmakers are getting a crash course in AI. Chuck Schumer, the majority leader in the U.S. Senate, announced an unusual plan to educate legislators who are crafting AI regulations, The New York Times reported. It could lead to legislation “within months,” he said.
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The Politics of Language Models: AI's political opinions differ from most Americans'.
Do language models have their own opinions about politically charged issues? Yes — and they probably don’t match yours. Shibani Santurkar and colleagues at Stanford compared opinion-poll responses of large language models with those of various human groups.
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U.S. Politics Goes Generative: U.S. Republicans released the first AI generated attack ad.
A major political party in the United States used generated imagery in a campaign ad. The Republican Party released a video entirely made up of AI-generated images.
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Pushing Voters' Buttons: How AI is Used to Create Persuasive Political Ads
As the United States (along with several other countries) gears up for general elections, AI is helping campaigns attract voters with increasing sophistication.
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AI for President: How South Korean president's campaign used deepfakes
A deepfake of South Korea’s new president helped propel him into office. Yoon Suk-yeol, who won the country’s March 9 election, campaigned using videos that featured an AI-generated likeness of himself answering voters’ questions.
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Clues to the Secret Identity of Q: AI researchers claim to unmask Q.
Machine learning algorithms may have unmasked the authors behind a sprawling conspiracy theory that has had a wide-ranging impact on U.S. politics.
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Predicting Regime Change: CoupCast uses AI to predict unrest.
Researchers at the University of Central Florida are working with a system called CoupCast to estimate the likelihood that an individual country will undergo a coup d’état.
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Democracies Embrace Surveillance: AI Increasingly Spies on Citizens of Western Democracies
What if AI-enabled monitoring isn’t just for dictators and despots?The fear: Under the pretext of maintaining law and order, even countries founded on a commitment to individual rights allow police to take advantage of smart-city infrastructure and smart-home devices.