"Looking at the demand for misinformation tells us that as long as people have certain worldviews, they will seek out and find information consistent with those views. Depending on what someone’s worldview is, the information in question is often misinformation—or at least would be considered misinformation by those with differing worldviews."
#SayashKapoor, #ArvindNarayanan, 2024
https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/we-looked-at-78-election-deepfakes
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"We analyzed every instance of AI use in elections collected by the WIRED AI Elections Project, which tracked known uses of AI for creating political content during elections taking place in 2024 worldwide. In each case, we identified what AI was used for and estimated the cost of creating similar content without AI."
#SayashKapoor, #ArvindNarayanan, Dec 2024
https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/we-looked-at-78-election-deepfakes
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The valuable part of the work was the annotations, not the transcription, and we were always shorthanded, and automated transcription would have freed up a set of hands - and a mind - to make sense of the delegates' remarks and explain them to others.
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