An election time capsule from American public media. This is marketplace tech. I'm Lily Dramale. The location was Maricopa County, Arizona. The date, November 6, 2020, three days after the election day matchup between Donald Trump

and Joe Biden.

Trump supporters were rallying at a building where ballots were being counted.

If we don't protect the vote and we don't have legal votes and those votes don't count,

we're nothing.

In the end, Arizona flipped blue after 20 years, barely, but conspiracy theories about dead voters and stuffed ballot boxes

ran rampant online. An Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes says AI will only supercharge misinformation this time.

Generative artificial intelligence is not a new weapon in the arsenal. It is an

expander, an amplifier of the old weapons of misinformation, disinformation and

malinformation. The notion is to knock people off their games, whether it's

spoofing elections officials like myself or candidates. You don't know what you don't know.

So being exposed to a potential weapon really helps you recognize it better if and when you actually

have to face it in the real world. It's not a new thing, it's not a new thing, it's not strange, right?

You've dealt with it, you've kind of figured it out.

I want to dwell on that point for a moment, this idea that misinformation is not a new problem we just have new tools now expand on that

if you would yeah well look we've been telling the truth about American elections

across the United States of America there is no such thing as a perfect election,

but at the same time, we also don't have widespread fraud

in the United States of America.

We don't have millions and millions of people

who are on the voter rolls who shouldn't be.

That's just not the case. but that is a prevalent lie. That is part of the

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