SAO PAULO: AI-generated videos and photos used for political disinformation are the scourge of a busy global election year, and Brazil is scrambling t...
: AI-generated videos and photos used for political disinformation are the scourge of a busy global election year, and Brazil is scrambling to regulate the technology ahead of municipal polls.
The rapid development of AI, turbocharged by the 2022 launch of ChatGPT, has shaken up the online landscape while sparking awe and fear over the future of the technology. Any other type of use of artificial intelligence for electoral purposes must be accompanied by a notice clearly identifiable to the public.
“The fact is that humanity is becoming a victim of algorithms... and being manipulated by artificial intelligence, in a way that has never been seen in history,“ President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said last week in an interview with the RedeTV channel. The nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate on Wednesday warned that several generative AI tools continue to allow the creation of deceptive images related to political candidates and voting.