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:
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> 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...
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> 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
