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A week after falsely claiming Kamala Harris’ campaign used AI to inflate crowd sizes, Trump is now posting AI-generated photos of Taylor Swift fans endorsing him. 
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APT42, which is believed to work for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, targeted about a dozen people associated with both Trump’s and Biden’s campaigns this spring, according to Google’s Threat Analysis Group.
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“Although conversation provoking, it reads as infantilizing,” says one young voter about the meme campaigns waged by the Labour and Conservative parties in the UK. “They’re trivializing a very serious event.”
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If it wins the UK general election, “AI Steve” will be represented by businessman Steve Endacott in Parliament. Endacott says he’ll merely be a conduit, and the AI will make the policy decisions.
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A vast majority of the election-related disinformation a South African watchdog group identified came from X, where Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla posted a fake video featuring a Donald Trump endorsement.
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More than 60 countries are holding elections in 2024. Throughout the year, WIRED will be tracking every instance of AI’s use in and around those campaigns.
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Annoying texts and disinformation campaigns have wrecked get-out-the-vote drives. Now, Relentless, a progressive organizing group, wants to pay you to tell your friends to vote.
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As deepfakes and AI-manipulated content circulate in India, experts worry about their implications.
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UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, part of the GCHQ signals intelligence agency, to protect mobile phones of election candidates from cyber-attack Political candidates, election officials and others at high risk of being targeted online are being offered protection against phishing and malware attacks in the run-up to the next general election. The move follows attempts by Russian intelligence services and hacking groups linked to China to target institutions, high-profile individuals and parliamentarians in the UK. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, part of the GCHQ signals intelligence agency, is to provide the service, known as Personal Internet Protection, to high profile individuals considered at risk from attack by hostile states.
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Experts worry that election deniers could weaponize chatbots to overwhelm and slow down local officials.
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The RFK Jr. campaign’s chatbot had previously affirmed Kennedy’s promotion of conspiracy theories, and appeared to circumvent OpenAI’s ban on political use.
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Though TikTok is banned on most government devices, President Joe Biden's campaign has signed on—and his first TikTok references the bizarre conspiracy theory about Taylor Swift endorsing his campaign.
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Targeted, AI-generated political misinformation is already out there—and humans are falling for it.
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From Hasan Piker to Logan Paul, this interactive display maps how online personalities on the right and the left are using their massive followings to influence the US election.
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June 30, 2024 4:06 AM
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Experts tell WIRED that Russian disinformation campaigns are using generative AI more and more.
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June 13, 2024 7:23 PM
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Wyoming’s secretary of state wants the county to reject its candidacy, but the AI bot’s human “meat puppet” says everything is in order.
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June 9, 2024 4:55 AM
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With just six months to go before the US presidential election, Gemini and Copilot chatbots are incapable of saying that Joe Biden won in 2020, and won’t return results on any election anywhere, ever.
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May 31, 2024 3:43 AM
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EXCLUSIVE: Campaign ads published on Facebook and Instagram ahead of the EU elections by AfD, Germany's far-right party, blame immigrants for crime and sexual violence.
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May 31, 2024 3:13 AM
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Joint parliamentary security committee chair Margaret Beckett writes to prime minister urging government to prepare for foreign states interfering with 4 July election.
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May 25, 2024 6:39 AM
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Without new rules, campaigns could hoodwink voters with AI-generated ads. And no one really seems to be taking the threat seriously.
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May 8, 2024 7:32 PM
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Politicians are roping in influencers to woo voters like never before. But is this a good thing?
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March 11, 2024 10:52 PM
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Four key hires will try to win back disenchanted younger voters online during the general election.
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March 10, 2024 12:56 AM
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WIRED reviewed a letter showing hundreds of Google workers demanding the company drop its sponsorship of MindTheTech, a conference in New York this week that promotes Israeli tech companies.
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January 27, 2024 1:14 AM
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Two fake-audio experts say that the deepfake robocall of President Biden received by some voters last week was likely created with technology from Silicon Valley’s favorite voice cloning startup.
