WASHINGTON, D.C. — As a bitterly contested US election campaign enters its final stretch, misinformation researchers have raised the alarm over threats posed by AI and foreign influence — but voters appear more concerned about falsehoods from a more familiar source: politicians.
The United States is battling a firehose of misinformation before the November 5 vote — from fake 'news' sites that researchers say were created by Russian and Iranian actors, to manipulated images generated by artificial intelligence tools that have blurred the boundaries between reality and fiction.
'Voters saw that play out in August when Republican nominee Donald Trump falsely accused his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, of using AI technology to manipulate a Michigan campaign rally photo to project a larger crowd size.That claim was easily disproved by photos and videos from AFP journalists who were present at the rally as well as digital forensics experts who told AFP's fact-checkers that the image in question did not carry signs of AI manipulation.
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