Sam says avoid AI abuse-protect the democratic process.
With elections coming up in the US and other major countries, concerns are rising that hostile nations might use AI to sow dissent.
Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and DALL-E will get extra guardrails, say their creators.
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The growth of such tools has raised worry that could be used to manipulate voters with false news stories and computer-generated images and video.
OpenAI said people aren't allowed to use its tools for political campaigning and lobbying.
People also aren't allowed to create chatbots that impersonate candidates and other real people, or chatbots that pretend to be local governments.
It also banned applications that discouraged voting-by claiming a vote was meaningless, for example.
To increase vigilance ahead of the elections, OpenAI said it has brought together expertise from its safety systems, threat intelligence, legal, engineering, and policy teams.
It anticipates quite a few misleading deepfakes, chatbots impersonating candidates, and scaled influence operations.
A recent example is Mark Ruffalo reposting an image of Trump on Epstein's plane.
Someone made a deepfake image smearing Trump, Ruffalo believed it, and because Ruffalo has a wide following the fake image went far and wide on the internet.
Now all they need to do is make sure the public doesn't freak out and put pressure on the government to regulate them.
The way this upcoming election plays out will shape AI regulation for the foreseeable future, and all the big AI companies know it.
There's way too much at stake here from the corporate perspective.
I'm not as worried about Joe Schmo using OpenAI services as I am about a foreign state with weaponized AI tools.
When you put the squeeze on the free flow of information it tends to leak out from a direction you were not expecting.
Drowning out false information with true information is the way to go.
Anything that gives people greater access to true information wins in my book.
I don't think AI models are capable of producing the amount of misinformation that is coming out from some of the most popular American news outlets nor is it going to have as much impact as the said outlets will have.
This Cyber News was published on securityboulevard.com. Publication date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:43:03 +0000