Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, November 8th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. It was election day here in the United States

yesterday not the biggest elections as these things go but the event probably did tend to remind folks that we have a bigger election

one year from now. And, well, look, what happens now that we're in this new AI paradigm with elections. This is not just

me sticking to the narrative of the show or trying to force connections to that

narrative. There are two big headlines this morning about tech platforms at least starting to think about AI and elections.

For example, Meta says it will require advertisers to disclose running political ads with media altered by AI or other

software starting in early 2024 ahead of next year's presidential election.

Quoting the journal.

The Facebook parent company said the new policy will go into effect

at the start of the new year. Political advertisers will have to disclose when an ad contains

an image, video, or audio that was digitally created or altered significantly. Meta provided examples of... or depict a real person saying or doing something they didn't say or do.

Another example includes the digital creation of a realistic looking event or person that didn't

occur or doesn't exist.

The new policy is being announced nearly a year after Open AIs public release of

ChatGPT in November 2022.

ChatGPT is a large language model chatbot that ushered in a new era of so-called

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