Synthetic intelligence lab OpenAI printed a weblog publish Monday searching for to handle fears that its expertise will meddle with elections, as greater than a 3rd of the globe prepares to move to the polls this 12 months.
Using AI to intrude with election integrity has been a priority because the Microsoft-backed firm launched two merchandise: ChatGPT, which may mimic human writing convincingly, and DALL-E, whose expertise can be utilized to create “deepfakes,” or realistic-looking pictures which might be fabricated.
These frightened embody OpenAI’s personal CEO Sam Altman, who testified in Congress in Could that he was “nervous” about generative AI’s skill to compromise election integrity by means of “one-on-one interactive disinformation.”
The San Francisco-based firm stated that in the US, which is able to maintain presidential elections this 12 months, it’s working with the Nationwide Affiliation of Secretaries of State, a corporation that focuses on selling efficient democratic processes akin to elections.
ChatGPT will direct customers to CanIVote.org when requested sure election-related questions, it added.
The corporate additionally stated it’s engaged on making it extra apparent when pictures are AI-generated utilizing DALL-E, and is planning to place a “cr” icon on pictures to point it was AI-generated, following a protocol created by the Coalition for Content material Provenance and Authenticity.
It’s also engaged on methods to establish DALL-E-generated content material even after pictures have been modified.
In its weblog publish, OpenAI emphasised that its insurance policies prohibit its expertise for use in methods it has recognized as probably abusive, akin to creating chatbots pretending to be actual folks, or discouraging voting.
It additionally prohibits DALL-E from creating pictures of actual folks, together with political candidates, it stated.
The corporate faces challenges policing what is definitely taking place on its platform.
When Reuters final 12 months tried to create pictures of Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the request was blocked and a message appeared saying it “could not comply with our content material coverage.”
Reuters, nonetheless, was in a position to create pictures of a minimum of a dozen different U.S. politicians, together with former Vice President Mike Pence.