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While the US and UK 2024 elections are several months away, the US the Congress has been prioritising the security and integrity of the vote. At the centre of these concerns is generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the potential impact it could have on misinformation, fraud, and other digital campaigns leading up to the elections.

What must be taken into account is the power technology has to create realistic, but actually fake news stories, soundbites, and even videos of candidates.

The distributed and decentralised nature of elections is both good and bad for cyber security. Fortunately, decentralisation makes it hard, though not impossible, for a single cyber operation to compromise multiple jurisdictions.

Now, OpenAI has declared it is going to introduce new tools meant to combat disinformation, just in time for the many elections that will be held in some of the world’s leading countries. It is clear by now that AI’s great assistance and technological advances come with the heavy price of flooding the internet with disinformation.
With elections looming in countries like the US, India and the UK, OpenAI declared that it will not allow its tech (like the chatbot ChatGPT and image generator DALL-E 3) to be used for political campaigns.

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