AI-Generated Political Campaigns Are Already Getting Ugly
The potential for deception is off the charts
Most Americans are already sick of divisive political campaigns riddled with negativity and bad Photoshop images. But those are already way behind us. Artificial Intelligence’s abilities put the ability to slander and deceive into the hands of anyone with malice, almost instantly.
And to generate and distribute thousands of deceptive ads in minutes for free on social media and fake news sites. You don’t need skills beyond a basic understanding of how to write prompts to direct the bots to generate almost any message.
Stop and think about this. It doesn’t even require any costly equipment or production dollars. And any wack job out there can create images, video, and audio virtually indecipherable from the real thing. We’re about to get flooded with a sickening amount of disgusting content on every device we own.
Actually it’s already happening. When Biden announced his Presidential run, MAGA Republicans immediately released a three minute video depicting a dystopian reality that would descend upon us if he wins, and not one bit of it was real.
As a former techie and marketing writer, I don’t even have to think about how this will work, pardon me, is working. We already…
