A record number of countries will hold elections this year, collectively home to more than 41% of the world’s population. Like past elections, the online ecosystem will play a role in shaping these contests, but new developments have strained an already challenged information space. The rapid advance of generative artificial intelligence (AI)—which allows anyone to conjure up realistic images, video, audio, or text based on user-provided prompts or questions—is among these developments.
Valerie Wirtschafter outlines the scope of the issue and what governments and technology companies can do to make this seemingly intractable challenge more manageable in a historic election year.
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