AI’s influence on elections is being overblown
This year, near half the world's population has the chance to take part in an election. And according to a stable stream of experts, organizations, academics, and wire service, there's a significant brand-new risk to the stability of those elections: expert system. The earliest forecasts alerted that a brand-new AI-powered world was, obviously, moving us towards a "tech-enabled Armageddon" where "elections get messed up", which "any person who's not concerned [was] not taking note." The web has plenty of doom-laden stories declaring that AI-generated deepfakes will deceive and affect citizens, along with allowing brand-new types of individualized and targeted political marketing. Such claims are worrying, it is important to look at the proof. With a considerable variety of this year's ele...