Taylor Swift warns of AI misinformation amid election cycle

Published: Sep 11, 2024 Duration: 00:02:04 Category: News & Politics

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near Mount Baldy, including an Off-Duty sheriff sergeant. Our other headlines tonight, politics meets pop culture. A huge boost for Vice President Kamala Harris after getting a late night endorsement from Taylor Swift. Today, many people are asking how much of that swift endorsement was driven by politics and how much due to technology. Let's bring in our business and tech reporter Scott Budman. This is a big deal no matter how you slice it. Scott. Yeah, it really is. Raj Swift made it clear she supports the politics of Vice President Harris, but also seemed to suggest that the reason she felt the need to endorse was because of AI technology. You don't have to look hard to find computer or AI generated images like this one or this one, suggesting Taylor Swift supports the Trump campaign. It's the ultimate amplifier. It increases the threat landscape, amplified enough, perhaps, that Swift herself felt compelled to post her own endorsement of Kamala Harris, citing the AI deepfakes as a reason. Because it's getting better. It truly erodes public the public's trust in in information, in, you know, articles, whether they're online or social media, etc. and it blurs the reality between what is true and what is false. A problem in politics, for sure, but also when it comes to PR, there's a healthy skepticism. Still, I think of AI and I think it is a little bit of the Wild West in tech. A skepticism Christian Hebert brings to social media posts about any of her clients. We're still not trained to know, to even look and question, and the tech just continues to get so much better every single day. It seems like in more realistic looking, hoping the real thing is the most effective way to get the message across. A side note to this Taylor Swift included a link to Vote.org in her Instagram post. That's a site that helps you register to vote. A spokesperson for the site says more than 330,000 people have

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