Elections 2024: Tracking AI use in global elections - Rest of World
As more than 2 billion people in 50 countries head to the polls this year, artificial intelligence-generated content is now widely being used to spread misinformation, as well as to confuse and entertain voters. Throughout 2024, Rest of World is tracking the most noteworthy incidents of AI-generated election content globally. METHODOLOGY SUBMIT YOUR EXAMPLES Try another set of filters to see more posts Enjoyed this story? Support our award-winning journalism by making a donation. Methodology: How we’re tracking AI incidents around global elections Editors: Victoria Turk, Russell Brandom Design: Joanne Lee Product & Development: Jane O’Donoghue, Anna Rasshivkina, Lily Lou Contributors: Bethany Allen, Masha Borak, Nilesh Christopher, Chantal Flores, Mutaher Khan, Faisal Mahmud, Adi Renaldi
Month Country Platform Uruguay 13 Oct 2024 The "impossible" debate Election | 27 Oct 2024 UruguayVideoTelevision Ahead of Uruguay's presidential election, Santo y Seña, a general interest morning show, briefly put on what it dubbed “the impossible debate.” The segment featured a “conversation” between a right wing Partido Colorado presidential candidate Andrés Ojeda and his counterpart for the center-left alliance Frente Amplio, "Yamandú" Orsi. But Orsi wasn’t on the show. Rather, he was "present" courtesy of an AI-powered hologram with a script pulled, according to the host, from the…
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