FEC Commissioner Says ‘Content Moderation’ Needed to Prevent AI-Generated Election Misinformation

A commissioner for the U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) has said that the government must compel tech companies to moderate more content in order to prevent the spread of artificial intelligence-driven election disinformation.
Big Tech companies are creating a monster in AI that will unleash havoc on the U.S. electoral system, FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub said at the June 27 Collision tech conference.
“For business reasons, the tech companies created this monster,” Weintraub said.
“It is going to be harder and harder to tell what is true.”
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While technology has allowed for the “democratization of information,” Weintraub said, that democratization was hastening the spread of both true and false information….}