😨 How AI models, including Facebook's, are spreading election misinformation in Spanish

Politics

Voting rights advocates have been warning for months that Spanish-speaking voters are facing a flood of election misinformation from AI models. With just days before the presidential election, Latino voters are facing a barrage of targeted ads in Spanish and a new source of political messaging in the artificial intelligence age: chatbots generating unfounded claims in Spanish about voting rights.AI models are producing a stream of election-related falsehoods in Spanish more frequently than in English, muddying the quality of election-related information for one of the nation’s fastest-growing and increasingly influential voting blocs, according to an analysis by two nonprofit newsrooms.Voting rights groups worry AI models may deepen information disparities for Spanish-speaking voters, who are being heavily courted ...

Fast Company     Nov 01, 2024