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Welcome to Wired Politics Lab, a show about how tech is changing politics.

I'm Leah Feiger, the senior politics editor at Wired.

Around the world, strange things are happening in politics.

The rapper Eminem has come out in support of an opposition party in South Africa.

Leaders who died years ago in India and Indonesia have been all of a sudden resurrected and are

actually telling people to vote for candidates currently on the ballot.

And in the United States, Joe Biden called a lot of people in New Hampshire and told them

to stay home during the primary.

To be clear, none of this actually happened.

Eminem has never said anything about South African politics,

at least as far as we know,

but generative AI can manipulate the images and voices

of pretty much everyone and make them say pretty much anything,

including something about an election or campaign.

So today on the show, we're gonna talk about

how AI is already being used to try and sway

this year's political races.

Wired has just launched a massive new project tracking the use of AI and elections around the

world.

We're going to be collecting and sharing examples all year long.

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