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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.
According to data from machine learning company Clarity, the number of deepfakes has increased by 900% compared with the same period last year. Some of the videos were produced or paid for by Russians and were intended to disrupt the U.S. election, U.S. intelligence officials said.
In a 54-page report in October, OpenAI said it had disrupted “more than 20 operations and deceptive networks from around the world trying to use our models.” Threats range from artificial intelligence-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 its 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 will begin 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 Givens, CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology, told CNBC last week: “Voters should never turn to AI chatbots for information about voting or elections because people have concerns about accurate There are so many worries about sexuality and integrity.
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