Re: A Campaign Aide Didn’t Write That Email. A.I. Did. -- NYT
None of this is surprising. I’m scared of criminals using it From my iPad Betty > On Apr 2, 2023, at 6:52 PM, ghe2001 wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > This is from a few days ago -- all of them are doing it. I'm assuming this > story wasn't written by some AI software. This email wasn't. Which is > exactly what it'd say if it was... > > > By Shane Goldmacher > > The Democratic Party has begun testing the use of artificial intelligence to > write first drafts of some fund-raising messages, appeals that often perform > better than those written entirely by human beings. > > Fake A.I. images of Donald J. Trump getting arrested in New York spread > faster than they could be fact-checked last week. > > And voice-cloning tools are producing vividly lifelike audio of President > Biden — and many others — saying things they did not actually say. > > Artificial intelligence isn’t just coming soon to the 2024 campaign trail. > It’s already here. > > The swift advance of A.I. promises to be as disruptive to the political > sphere as to broader society. Now any amateur with a laptop can manufacture > the kinds of convincing sounds and images that were once the domain of the > most sophisticated digital players. This democratization of disinformation is > blurring the boundaries between fact and fake at a moment when the acceptance > of universal truths — that Mr. Biden beat Mr. Trump in 2020, for example — is > already being strained. > > And as synthetic media gets more believable, the question becomes: What > happens when people can no longer trust their own eyes and ears? > > Inside campaigns, artificial intelligence is expected to soon help perform > mundane tasks that previously required fleets of interns. Republican and > Democratic engineers alike are racing to develop tools to harness A.I. to > make advertising more efficient, to engage in predictive analysis of public > behavior, to write more and more personalized copy and to discover new > patterns in mountains of voter data. The technology is evolving so fast that > most predict a profound impact, even if specific ways in which it will upend > the political system are more speculation than science. > > “It’s an iPhone moment — that’s the only corollary that everybody will > appreciate,” said Dan Woods, the chief technology officer on Mr. Biden’s 2020 > campaign. “It’s going to take pressure testing to figure out whether it’s > good or bad — and it’s probably both.” > > OpenAI, whose ChatGPT chatbot ushered in the generative-text gold rush, has > already released a more advanced model. Google has announced plans to expand > A.I. offerings inside popular apps like Google Docs and Gmail, and is rolling > out its own chatbot. Microsoft has raced a version to market, too. A smaller > firm, ElevenLabs, has developed a text-to-audio tool that can mimic anyone’s > voice in minutes. Midjourney, a popular A.I. art generator, can conjure > hyper-realistic images with a few lines of text that are compelling enough to > win art contests. > > “A.I. is about to make a significant change in the 2024 election because of > machine learning’s predictive ability,” said Brad Parscale, Mr. Trump’s first > 2020 campaign manager, who has since founded a digital firm that advertises > some A.I. capabilities. > > Disinformation and “deepfakes” are the dominant fear. While forgeries are > nothing new to politics — a photoshopped image of John Kerry and Jane Fonda > was widely shared in 2004 — the ability to produce and share them has > accelerated, with viral A.I. images of Mr. Trump being restrained by the > police only the latest example. A fake image of Pope Francis in a white puffy > coat went viral in recent days, as well. > > Many are particularly worried about local races, which receive far less > scrutiny. Ahead of the recent primary in the Chicago mayoral race, a fake > video briefly sprung up on a Twitter account called “Chicago Lakefront News” > that impersonated one candidate, Paul Vallas. > > “Unfortunately, I think people are going to figure out how to use this for > evil faster than for improving civic life,” said Joe Rospars, who was chief > strategist on Senator Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 campaign and is now the chief > executive of a digital consultancy. > > Those who work at the intersection of politics and technology return > repeatedly to the same historical hypothetical: If the infamous “Access > Hollywood” tape broke today — the one in which Mr. Trump is heard bragging > about assaulting women and getting away with it — would Mr. Trump acknowledge > it was him, as he did in 2016? > > The nearly universal answer was no. > > “I think about that example all the time,” said Matt Hodges, who was the > engineering director on Mr. Biden’s 2020 campaign and is now executive > director of Zinc Labs, which invests in Democratic technology. Republicans, > he sa
Re: A Campaign Aide Didn’t Write That Email. A.I. Did. -- NYT
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Very sorry. email error. -- Glenn English -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: ProtonMail wsBzBAEBCAAnBQJkKil5CRCf14YxgqyMMhYhBCyicw9CUnAlY0ANl5/XhjGC rIwyAADlBgf/RkUCFtiELiRGD8ZgCfwFPq/Lo3pNC4pB38JdVpO2id8P4j2p SNN7lgQ4g8K0QokTNzF3tsaydZ5HxbQOMEy1dZDIoKtXUv69afKZwx4wR6L2 2rdAuMEul2ThqnxqK46K9boXk7uHyitHmXTBlrRgpfWx/MaVawpUehvhsBUK 7hyiX/1XcC3R7BjOmDMxOn1c05C+A+A4Iawv5+0PSo5yQNOrbDimldwJDaf9 k8F6nyemR/BsncAcdL79QjuyOcAJPzAQPqFRwFRBm5H2kNEX41aKPx1xP0Za TotTz7DdZT21bYrvAPdAPED7Ckd09DzMY74mc0QPg9SEy9wv9v5bpw== =LLSv -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: A Campaign Aide Didn’t Write That Email. A.I. Did. -- NYT
ghe2001 quotes: > And as synthetic media gets more believable, the question becomes: > What happens when people can no longer trust their own eyes and ears? When they are actually using them. Which they are not doing when viewing "media". Actually, you should not entirely trust your own eyes and ears either. Go watch a good stage magician. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA
A Campaign Aide Didn’t Write That Email. A.I. Did. -- NYT
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 This is from a few days ago -- all of them are doing it. I'm assuming this story wasn't written by some AI software. This email wasn't. Which is exactly what it'd say if it was... By Shane Goldmacher The Democratic Party has begun testing the use of artificial intelligence to write first drafts of some fund-raising messages, appeals that often perform better than those written entirely by human beings. Fake A.I. images of Donald J. Trump getting arrested in New York spread faster than they could be fact-checked last week. And voice-cloning tools are producing vividly lifelike audio of President Biden — and many others — saying things they did not actually say. Artificial intelligence isn’t just coming soon to the 2024 campaign trail. It’s already here. The swift advance of A.I. promises to be as disruptive to the political sphere as to broader society. Now any amateur with a laptop can manufacture the kinds of convincing sounds and images that were once the domain of the most sophisticated digital players. This democratization of disinformation is blurring the boundaries between fact and fake at a moment when the acceptance of universal truths — that Mr. Biden beat Mr. Trump in 2020, for example — is already being strained. And as synthetic media gets more believable, the question becomes: What happens when people can no longer trust their own eyes and ears? Inside campaigns, artificial intelligence is expected to soon help perform mundane tasks that previously required fleets of interns. Republican and Democratic engineers alike are racing to develop tools to harness A.I. to make advertising more efficient, to engage in predictive analysis of public behavior, to write more and more personalized copy and to discover new patterns in mountains of voter data. The technology is evolving so fast that most predict a profound impact, even if specific ways in which it will upend the political system are more speculation than science. “It’s an iPhone moment — that’s the only corollary that everybody will appreciate,” said Dan Woods, the chief technology officer on Mr. Biden’s 2020 campaign. “It’s going to take pressure testing to figure out whether it’s good or bad — and it’s probably both.” OpenAI, whose ChatGPT chatbot ushered in the generative-text gold rush, has already released a more advanced model. Google has announced plans to expand A.I. offerings inside popular apps like Google Docs and Gmail, and is rolling out its own chatbot. Microsoft has raced a version to market, too. A smaller firm, ElevenLabs, has developed a text-to-audio tool that can mimic anyone’s voice in minutes. Midjourney, a popular A.I. art generator, can conjure hyper-realistic images with a few lines of text that are compelling enough to win art contests. “A.I. is about to make a significant change in the 2024 election because of machine learning’s predictive ability,” said Brad Parscale, Mr. Trump’s first 2020 campaign manager, who has since founded a digital firm that advertises some A.I. capabilities. Disinformation and “deepfakes” are the dominant fear. While forgeries are nothing new to politics — a photoshopped image of John Kerry and Jane Fonda was widely shared in 2004 — the ability to produce and share them has accelerated, with viral A.I. images of Mr. Trump being restrained by the police only the latest example. A fake image of Pope Francis in a white puffy coat went viral in recent days, as well. Many are particularly worried about local races, which receive far less scrutiny. Ahead of the recent primary in the Chicago mayoral race, a fake video briefly sprung up on a Twitter account called “Chicago Lakefront News” that impersonated one candidate, Paul Vallas. “Unfortunately, I think people are going to figure out how to use this for evil faster than for improving civic life,” said Joe Rospars, who was chief strategist on Senator Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 campaign and is now the chief executive of a digital consultancy. Those who work at the intersection of politics and technology return repeatedly to the same historical hypothetical: If the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape broke today — the one in which Mr. Trump is heard bragging about assaulting women and getting away with it — would Mr. Trump acknowledge it was him, as he did in 2016? The nearly universal answer was no. “I think about that example all the time,” said Matt Hodges, who was the engineering director on Mr. Biden’s 2020 campaign and is now executive director of Zinc Labs, which invests in Democratic technology. Republicans, he said, “may not use ‘fake news’ anymore. It may be ‘Woke A.I.’” For now, the frontline function of A.I. on campaigns is expected to be writing first drafts of the unending email and text cash solicitations. “Given the amount of rote, asinine verbiage that gets produced in politics, people will put it to work,” said
