AI's influence on election 2024
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
AI has the power to make audio and videos of people saying anything their creators want. So, how will policymakers and election officials prevent it from deceiving voters? Darrell West and Nicole Gill join Meghna Chakrabarti.
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| 0:00.0 | On October 17th, 2003, Michigan State Representative Penelope Cernaglu gave a presentation on Michigan |
| 0:08.8 | House Bill 5141. |
| 0:12.3 | The presentation was sparsely attended. The meeting room was largely empty. |
| 0:17.7 | And that's too bad, because Representative Cernaglu drew back the curtain on one of the biggest new forces working its way into American politics. |
| 0:26.4 | She started with this. |
| 0:28.4 | If you're watching this video, you're one of the 10,000 lucky people who'll get an iPhone 15 pro for just two dollars. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Mr Beast and I'm doing the world's largest iPhone 15 giveaway. |
| 0:38.8 | Click the link below to claim yours now. |
| 0:42.4 | Now if you don't know who Mr Beast is, ask your kids because he is a YouTube |
| 0:47.8 | superstar with more than 230 million followers. So why did Mr Beast have a cameo in Representative |
| 0:56.2 | Cernaglu's bill presentation? She explained. |
| 0:59.4 | So it turns out Mr Beast didn't actually do that video. That's not him. If you click that |
| 1:06.0 | link something bad probably happened you did not get a free iPhone. So that's |
| 1:11.8 | just one of the better examples out there. |
| 1:15.2 | It's an example of video and audio content created by AI. To be clear, it is fake. |
| 1:23.5 | Mr Beast himself disavowed it. |
| 1:25.9 | Even though the voice sounds like his and the words match the lip movements in the video, |
| 1:30.7 | Mr Beast took to social media and posted the following quote lots of people are |
| 1:36.4 | getting this deep fake scam out of me the future is going to continue to get |
| 1:41.7 | weirder. |
| 1:43.0 | Are social media platforms ready to handle the rise of AI deepfakes? |
| 1:47.5 | This is a serious problem." |
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