Scientific American
•83% Informative
AI will help spread toxic content across social media platforms on a near- daily basis in 2024 .
Disinformation campaigns, online trolls and other “bad actors” are set to increasingly use generative AI to fuel election falsehoods, a study says.
The potential fallout could affect election results in more than 50 countries holding elections this year , the study authors say.
In previous election cycles, bot networks remained near the fringe of social media.
Experts predict that AI -generated disinformation will spread much more widely this time around.
Bad actors are likely to abuse base versions of generative AI , such as GPT-2 , which have looser content filters than the current models.
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