{"id":129586,"date":"2024-05-31T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129586"},"modified":"2024-05-31T17:39:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T21:39:16","slug":"washington-post-josh-tyrangiel-why-this-years-election-interference-could-make-2016-look-cute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129586","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) Josh Tyrangiel–Why this year\u2019s election interference could make 2016 look cute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For more than a year, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray has warned about a wave of election interference that could\u00a0make 2016 look cute<\/a>. No respectable foreign adversary needs an army of human trolls in 2024. AI can belch out literally billions of pieces of realistic-looking and sounding misinformation about when, where and how to vote. It can just as easily customize political propaganda for any individual target. In 2016, Brad Parscale, Donald Trump\u2019s digital campaign director, spent endless hours customizing tiny thumbnail campaign ads for groups of 20 to 50 people on Facebook. It was miserable work but an incredibly effective way to make people feel seen by a campaign. In 2024, Brad Parscale is software, available to any chaos agent for pennies. There are more legal restrictions on ads, but AI can create fake social profiles and aim squarely for your individual feed. Deepfakes of candidates have been here for months, and the AI companies keep releasing tools that make all of this material faster and more convincing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost 80 percent<\/a> of Americans think some form of AI abuse is likely to affect the outcome of November\u2019s presidential election. Wray has staffed each of the FBI\u2019s 56 field offices with at least two election-crime coordinators<\/a>. He has urged people to be more discerning<\/a> with their media sources. In public, he\u2019s the face of chill. \u201cAmericans can and should have confidence in our election system,\u201d he said at the International Conference on Cyber Security in January. Privately, an elected official familiar with Wray\u2019s thinking told me the director is in a middle manager\u2019s paradox: loads of responsibility, limited authority. \u201c[Wray] keeps highlighting the issue, but he won\u2019t play politics, and he doesn\u2019t make policy,\u201d that official said. \u201cThe FBI enforces laws. The director is like, \u2018Please ask Congress where the laws are.\u2019\u201d<\/p>Read it all<\/a>.

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Why this year\u2019s election interference could make 2016 look cute
The first big AI crisis isn\u2019t some hypothetical far off in the future. It\u2019s coming on Election Day.
Opinion By Josh @Tyrangiel<\/a>
May 30, 2024 at 7:30 a.m. EDT https:\/\/t.co\/tVtkR6qJMe<\/a><\/p>— K_Conner (@kvconner) May 30, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>