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TEAM FAVORITE: Chatbots And Deepfakes Are Coming For Your Election Cycle

TEAM FAVORITE: Chatbots And Deepfakes Are Coming For Your Election Cycle

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TEAM FAVORITE: Chatbots And Deepfakes Are Coming For Your Election Cycle

FromBig Take

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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Aug 29, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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We're taking a pause this week, so here's a favorite episode you might have missed. Thanks for listening. We'll be back with new episodes next week.
As the saying goes: a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on. As AI is increasing productivity across industries, it’s also raising concern about how to regulate its output and keep it from putting many of us out of work. And as the next campaign season approaches, another question comes into focus: What about its potential to quickly create and spread misinformation about political rivals?
Bloomberg’s Laura Davison and Emily Birnbaum raise the curtain on the little regulated and largely vexing ability to disseminate political hay and deepfakes via a chatbot.
Read more: AI Is Making Politics Easier, Cheaper and More Dangerous
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Released:
Aug 29, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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Each weekday, The Big Take brings you one story—one big, important story. Host Wes Kosova talks to Bloomberg journalists around the world, experts and the people at the center of the news to help you understand what’s happening, what it means and why it matters. Money, politics, the economy and business, energy, the environment, technology—we cover it all on The Big Take.