AI: Election 2024
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- AI: Election 2024
- February 8, 2024
- Category 2024 us election
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script AI: Election 2024 HEADLINE: US Political Campaigns Weigh Artificial Intelligence TEASER: Security analysts say generative AI could swing close races PUBLISHED AT: 02/07/2024 at 9:32 pm BYLINE: Carolyn Presutti CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Washington VIDEOGRAPHER: Roy Kim, Rob Parsell VIDEO EDITOR: ASSIGNING EDITOR: Stearns SCRIPT EDITORS: Mia Bush, Megan Duzor VIDEO SOURCE (S): original, zoom, graphics PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV __ RADIO __ TRT: 5:32 VID APPROVED BY: mia TYPE: Frame link, for video and thumbnail: https://app.frame.io/projects/ae30dd8f-b6c4-418a-b02d-530603115a58/6608104f-7582-4b7c-88ea-0fd751be7bd6)) ((INTRO)) [[The 2024 U.S. presidential election may look a lot like the 2020 vote with polls for the two major party nominations led by the same two men — Joe Biden and Donald Trump. One thing that will certainly be different is the use of artificial intelligence, which is playing a growing role in American politics.]] ((CAROLYN PRESUTTI AND PRETEND CAROLYN PRESUTTI)) I’m Carolyn Presutti, senior Washington correspondent with Voice of America. I’m Carolyn Presutti, senior Washington correspondent at Voice of America. ((NARRATOR)) One of these is real and one is generated with artificial intelligence, or AI. Can you tell the difference? ((Start to populate the screen with shots of everyone we interviewed—with blocks or squares covering the page, with one video showing the NBC debate candidates – keep up to cover my question in the first sot)) ((NARRATOR WHO VOICES THE REPORT)) That is why AI could prove to be a huge problem in the 2024 presidential election. ((SOT Rosenberg 13:42 cover my question)) “Can your industry police itself? I don’t think it can police itself.” ((SOT Holman 3:10)) “It’s going to hurt Republicans as well as Democrats.” ((SOT Gonzales 3:29)) “AI will and is already present across every inch of our election.” ((SOT Brill 5:57)) “At least in the short term, it’s pretty scary.” ((take video from here https://www.newsguardtech.com and here’s their AI tracking page https://www.newsguardtech.com/special-reports/ai-tracking-center/ )) ((NARRATOR)) Steven Brill is the co-CEO of NewsGuard, which tracks misinformation and AI on news sites. He worries voters won’t know what to believe in the 2024 presidential race. ((Nat of Access Hollywood Tape with Trump)) ((courtesy—need to find video and check courtesy)) ((NARRATOR)) Remember this “Access Hollywood” tape that surfaced a month before the 2016 presidential election? In it, then-Republican candidate Donald Trump made lewd comments about women. ((Steven Brill, NewsGuard)) ((12:14 )) “Today, if that surfaced, he could easily say, ‘You know that audio is a fake,’ and people would be inclined to believe it, because there is so much audio out there and video out there and text that is fake because we are in the age of generative AI.” ((NARRATOR)) But so far, no candidate we spoke to has an active way to detect AI used against them. ((nat of DeSantis ad)) ((NARRATOR)) In June 2023, a website backing Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis used three AI-generated photos of former President Trump hugging and kissing Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to the president during the COVID-19 pandemic who became unpopular among many conservative voters. Susan Gonzales is the founder of AI literacy group AIandYou and predicts candidates will target independents, new voters and those who aren’t AI savvy. ((Susan Gonzales, AIandYou Founder)) ((4:16)) “Maybe I believe something that was an AI-generated fake, a completely false commercial, for example, and it sways my vote. I've just lost my essential right to vote because it's not based on accurate information. So unfortunately, in this election, there are no guardrails, there's no regulation, there are no consequences.” ((NARRATOR)) Security analysts say AI-generated political advertising could swing close races. ((NARRATOR)) As the head of an AI company, Louis Rosenberg says it would take one of his employees only an hour to create a rogue AI candidate claim. He says the federal government has a responsibility to regulate large AI companies. But…. ((Louis Rosenberg, Unanimous AI CEO)) ((8:43)) “Because they allow third-party developers through an API application developer interface to embed these tools into other websites, other applications now become much harder to police because third parties can use these tools in ways that even the companies making them would think are unethical.” ((NARRATOR)) President Joe Biden issued an executive order demanding that new systems have watermarking on AI-generated material. MIT’s David Rand predicts that will lead to what he calls banner blindness. ((David Rand, MIT)) ((9:41)) “If you label as AI-generated, everything that's AI-generated, regardless of whether it's misleading or not, people essentially are going to stop really paying attention to it. It's going to become, like, you know, this causes cancer labels, which are on, like, everything, and nobody takes it seriously.” ((NARRATOR)) The U.S. Federal Election Commission enforces campaign finance laws. ((broll of Holman talking to colleague, walking down hall, etc)) The commission is being petitioned by the advocacy group Public Citizen to restrict the use of AI in political campaigning as fraudulent misrepresentation. ((Craig Holman, Public Citizen Government Affairs Lobbyist)) ((9:00)) “A lot of voters are already quite skeptical about the elections. And if we end up facing all this misinformation in the upcoming election, it's going to compound that skepticism. And if Americans lose faith in elections, we're going to lose democracy in the end.” ((NARRATOR)) The Election Commission has yet to rule on this petition, but it denied a similar request from Public Citizen a few months ago. Facebook owner Meta is barring political campaigns and advertisers from using generative AI content on its platform. Google, which owns YouTube, says it will require users who post "realistic" AI-generated content to clearly disclose that it contains altered or synthetic material. Most experts do not have faith that Facebook or Google will police their rules. ((Steven Brill, NewsGuard)) ((9:27)) “They won’t enforce it or they won’t be able to enforce it or some combination of both. But I think it’s going to be meaningless.” ((NARRATOR)) Remember our question at the beginning of the report? This is the real video. Without more universal guidelines on artificial intelligence in politics, voters will be expected to catch the fakes on their own.
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- Network VOA
- Location (dateline) in Washington D. C.
- Embargo Date February 7, 2024 22:41 EST
- Byline Carolyn Presutti, VOA News
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America - English