{"id":17409,"date":"2024-03-29T12:50:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T12:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/29\/hillary-clinton-warns-ai-tech-will-make-2016-election-disinformation-look-primitive\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T12:50:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T12:50:03","slug":"hillary-clinton-warns-ai-tech-will-make-2016-election-disinformation-look-primitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/29\/hillary-clinton-warns-ai-tech-will-make-2016-election-disinformation-look-primitive\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton warns AI tech will make 2016 election disinformation \u2018look primitive\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described herself as a victim of election disinformation during a panel discussion on Thursday, and warned that the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) will make her experience \u2018look primitive.\u2019<\/p>\n

Clinton was taking part in a Columbia University event titled, \u2018AI\u2019s Impact on the 2024 Global Elections.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

She discussed her own experience in 2016 when she lost to former President Donald Trump, pointing out that the internet was populated with memes, fake content and conspiracies about her in the lead-up to Election Day.<\/p>\n

\u2018I don\u2019t think any of us understood it. I did not understand it. I can tell you, my campaign did not understand it. Their, you know, the so-called \u2018Dark Web\u2019 was filled with these kinds of memes and stories and videos of all sorts\u2026portraying me in all kinds of\u2026 less than flattering ways,\u2019 Clinton said. \u2018And we knew something\u2019s going on, but we didn\u2019t understand the full extent of the very clever way in which it was insinuated into social media.\u2019<\/p>\n

Clinton argued it was that leap to social media that accelerated the false content\u2019s integration with everyday Americans.<\/p>\n

\u2018There are people today who think I\u2019ve done all these terrible things because they saw it on the internet. And they saw it on the internet in their Facebook feed or some, you know, Twitter this or Snapchat that. They were, you know, following the breadcrumbs,\u2019 she said, warning of those efforts: \u2018And what they did to me was primitive.\u2019<\/p>\n

The former Democratic presidential nominee claimed the online conspiracies about her are now being used to create more sophisticated false content with more advanced technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018What we\u2019re talking about now is the leap in technology that we\u2019re dealing with. You know, they had all kinds of videos of people looking like me, but weren\u2019t me, and they had to keep whoever that woman was with her back to the camera enough so that they couldn\u2019t actually\u2026 be found out,\u2019 Clinton said. \u2018Now they can just go ahead, they can take me.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019ve had, you know, people who are students and experts in this tell me\u2026 because they\u2019ve got such a library of stuff about me, they\u2019re using it to practice on and see how more sophisticated they can get. So I am worried because, you know, having defamatory videos about you is no fun. I can tell you that. But having them in a way that you really can\u2019t make the distinction\u2026 you have no idea whether it\u2019s true or not, that is of a totally different level of threat.\u2019<\/p>\n

The potential prevalence of deepfakes \u2014 AI-generated videos, audio or images that show altered or completely fabricated scenarios \u2014 has already raised concern among U.S. officials ahead of November\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n

Those same officials are also concerned about the threat of hostile foreign actors intervening in the 2024 cycle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

FBI Director Christopher Wray warned in a speech last month that AI technology is lowering the barrier to entry for malign actors looking to meddle in U.S. elections.<\/p>\n

\u2018This election cycle, the U.S. will face more adversaries moving at a faster pace and enabled by new technology,\u2019 Wray said.<\/p>\n

\u2018Advances in generative AI, for instance, are lowering the barrier to entry, making it easier for both more and less sophisticated foreign adversaries to engage in malign influence while making foreign influence efforts by players both old and new, more realistic and more difficult to detect.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described herself as a victim of election disinformation during a panel discussion on Thursday, and warned that the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) will make her experience \u2018look primitive.\u2019 Clinton was taking part in a Columbia University event titled, \u2018AI\u2019s Impact on the 2024 Global Elections.\u2019\u00a0 She discussed her <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}