Australia’s top election official says deepfakes and AI-content pose unprecedented challenges to election integrity.
The next federal election will face unprecedented challenges from AI-generated content and fake news, Australia’s top election official has warned.
“We’ve been pretty successful at doing it by working at the very edges of those powers . But what we now face is a new challenge with the rise of AI and AI-generated content at election time,” he said.“I think what we’re dealing with is a means of generating election content that we’ve never seen before. It can be generated cheaply and at scale and distributed widely. And this is something that our system is not necessarily structured to pick up or deal with.
Rogers and his team have regular meetings with staff from Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and social media platform X to discuss what he describes as a “huge uptick in mis- and dis-, conspiracy theories, threats to staff”. Rogers, who is in his 11th and final year as commissioner, said the commission had narrow powers to ensure election material was properly authorised – and if AI-generated material had been properly authorised, the commission could do nothing to take it down.
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