Seems like AI in this election has been used more for memes than misinformation.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino. Perhaps you've heard, maybe even on this show, the generative artificial intelligence has the

potential to supercharge miss and disinformation in our elections. A bad actor could use AI tools to produce a video, for example,

of a candidate saying or doing something incriminating that in real life they didn't actually do.

But with 68 days until election day,

we haven't seen the kind of widespread AI misinformation campaigns

that experts warned about.

Instead, as Will Aremis points out in a recent analysis for the Washington Post,

we've seen a whole lot of silly memes, often boosted by one particular candidate.

So Donald Trump amplified a couple of AI-generated images.

One of those images showed a Soviet style rally where Kamala Harris is presiding and there are all these people,

identical people in uniform in the crowd and hanging over them all is this big Soviet-style hammer and sickle flag and so this goes along with the idea that Kamala is a communist which is a

name that Trump has called her in the past. I mean it did nobody's gonna think that this is the real Democratic convention I don't think I don't know maybe a few people will

But what it does is it just gets across the message

in a vivid way.

It's kind of like calling her a name,

but instead it's done with a picture.

And then another one that he amplified

was of a bunch of young women with t-shirts that say

Swifties for Trump.

And so this is part of this was at a time when there were rumors that Taylor Swift might be a

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